Any one who looked too far abroad with regard to the outcome of what he is proposing to do would, if there were no general rules in existence, soon be lost in a hopelessly complicated muddle of considerations.
Dewey warns against the complexities that arise from considering too many variables in decision-making.
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There was no logic which rendered necessary the appeal to the individual as an independent and isolated being.
What is significant is that access to means of amusement has been rendered easy and cheap beyond anything known in the past.
The easiest way out was to go back to the naked individual, to sweep away all associations as foreign to his nature and rights save as they proceeded from his own voluntary choice, and guaranteed his own private ends.
The idea remains barren and empty save as it is incarnated in human relationships.