John Dewey: “The influence of habit is decisive because all distinctively human action has to be learned, and the very heart, blood…”

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

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

They persist as emotional cries rather than as reasoned ideas.

There was no logic which rendered necessary the appeal to the individual as an independent and isolated being.