John Dewey: “It rules but it does not regulate; for its rule is confined to receipt of tribute and ceremonial deference.”

What he believes, hopes for and aims at is the outcome of association and intercourse.

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 relationships of husband and wife, parent and children, older and younger children, friend and friend, are the bonds from which authority proceeds.

Is the public much more than what a cynical diplomat once called Italy: a geographical expression?