John Dewey: “That within limits those successful in affairs have knowledge and skill is not to be doubted.”

Mistakes pile up and consolidate themselves into laws and methods of administration which are more harmful than the consequences which they were originally intended to control.

Freedom presented itself as an end in itself, though it signified in fact liberation from oppression and tradition.

The local communities without intent or forecast found their affairs conditioned by remote and invisible organizations.

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…