The very ignorance, bias, frivolity, jealousy, instability, which are alleged to incapacitate them from share in political affairs, unfit them still more for passive submission to rule by intellectuals.
Dewey contends that the very qualities that disqualify the masses from political participation also make them unsuitable for passive submission to expert rule.
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There was no logic which rendered necessary the appeal to the individual as an independent and isolated being.
Is the public much more than what a cynical diplomat once called Italy: a geographical expression?
Extensive, enduring, intricate and serious indirect consequences of the conjoint activity of a comparatively few persons traverse the globe.
There is therefore no necessary connection between the private character of an act and its non-social or anti-social character.