This appropriation is not only unfair to the laborious individual, but by making property insecure discourages the forthputting of energy at all and thus weakens or destroys the spring of social progress.
Dewey argues that insecurity in property rights can stifle individual effort and social progress.
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That and that only gives reality to public opinion.
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