John Dewey: “They are reflections into the singular human being of customs and institutions; they are not natural, that is, “native,”…”

They are made that way; it is “the nature of the beast.” We do not gain anything by inserting instincts to run, creep, swim and fly between the structure and the act.

The idea remains barren and empty save as it is incarnated in human relationships.

The clear consciousness of a communal life, in all its implications, constitutes the idea of democracy.

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.