John Dewey: “The problem of securing diffused and seminal intelligence can be solved only in the degree in which local communal life…”

Personal loyalties to elders take the place of political obedience.

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

For the very familiarity with the phenomena conceals their significance and blinds us to their relation to immediate political problems.

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