On the record
The state, even when it despotically interfered, was remote, an agency alien to daily life.
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John Dewey
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gutenberg.orgJohn Dewey: “The state, even when it despotically interfered, was remote, an agency alien to daily life.”
Editor's note · Context
Dewey describes the state as a distant entity in people's daily lives, even when it intervenes.
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