John Dewey: “That and that only gives reality to public opinion.”

They are reflections into the singular human being of customs and institutions; they are not natural, that is, “native,” organic propensities.

The invasion of the community by the new and relatively impersonal and mechanical modes of combined human behavior is the outstanding fact of modern life.

What is significant is that access to means of amusement has been rendered easy and cheap beyond anything known in the past.

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