John Dewey: “We conclude, then, that temporal and local diversification is a prime mark of political organization, and one which…”

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

Nor can the liberating and confirming results of public action be construed to yield a wholesale idealization of states in contrast with other associations.

They are reflections into the singular human being of customs and institutions; they are not natural, that is, “native,” organic propensities.

But this conclusion is an obvious invitation to trial of forces to see where superior force lies.