John Dewey: “But indubitably one great trouble at present is that the data for good judgment are lacking; and no innate faculty of…”

That the state should be to some a deity and to others a devil is another evidence of the defects of the premises from which discussion sets out.

In short, private acts may be socially valuable both by indirect consequences and by direct intention.

There is therefore no necessary connection between the private character of an act and its non-social or anti-social character.

But in this respect he does not differ from those explicitly designated public officials who have also been known to betray the interest committed to them instead of faithfully representing it.