John Dewey: “The rule has been to look with suspicion and greet with hostility the appearance of anything new, even a tool or…”

The idea remains barren and empty save as it is incarnated in human relationships.

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.

But he does so only at the cost of repression of those of his potentialities which can be realized only through membership in other groups.

What is significant is that access to means of amusement has been rendered easy and cheap beyond anything known in the past.