John Dewey: “It is a practical problem of human beings living in association with one another, of mankind generically.”

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

For the older symbols of ideal life still engage thought and command loyalty.

Nothing better exhibits the scope of the movement than the fact that philosophic theories of knowledge made the same appeal to the self, or ego, in the form of personal consciousness identified with mind itself, that political theory made…

The ties which hold men together in action are numerous, tough and subtle.