John Dewey: “The relationships of husband and wife, parent and children, older and younger children, friend and friend, are the bonds…”

The easiest way out was to go back to the naked individual, to sweep away all associations as foreign to his nature and rights save as they proceeded from his own voluntary choice, and guaranteed his own private ends.

There is therefore no necessary connection between the private character of an act and its non-social or anti-social character.

Extensive, enduring, intricate and serious indirect consequences of the conjoint activity of a comparatively few persons traverse the globe.

There was no logic which rendered necessary the appeal to the individual as an independent and isolated being.