Its outcome was the development of those extensive and invisible bonds, those “great impersonal concerns, organizations,” which now pervasively affect the thinking, willing and doing of everybody, and which have ushered in the “new era of human relationships.
Dewey discusses the emergence of large organizations that influence human relationships in modern society.
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In other words, every officer of the public, whether he represents it as a voter or as a stated official, has a dual capacity.
The idea remains barren and empty save as it is incarnated in human relationships.
Personal loyalties to elders take the place of political obedience.
There was no logic which rendered necessary the appeal to the individual as an independent and isolated being.