John Dewey: “The clear consciousness of a communal life, in all its implications, constitutes the idea of democracy.”

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…

In this distinction we find the germ of the distinction between the private and the public.

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

But he does so only at the cost of repression of those of his potentialities which can be realized only through membership in other groups.