It would have taken a new race of human beings to escape, in the use made of political forms, from the influence of deeply engrained habits, of old institutions and customary social status, with their inwrought limitations of expectation, desire and demand.
Dewey argues that overcoming ingrained habits and institutions would require a fundamental change in human nature.
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Personal loyalties to elders take the place of political obedience.
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For the very familiarity with the phenomena conceals their significance and blinds us to their relation to immediate political problems.
It rules but it does not regulate; for its rule is confined to receipt of tribute and ceremonial deference.