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A large part of the indictments which are now drawn against technological industry are chargeable to the unchanged persistence of a legal institution inherited from the pre-industrial age.
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John Dewey
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Dewey argues that many criticisms of technological industry stem from outdated legal institutions.
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They are made that way; it is “the nature of the beast.” We do not gain anything by inserting instincts to run, creep, swim and fly between the structure and the act.
The idea remains barren and empty save as it is incarnated in human relationships.
They persist as emotional cries rather than as reasoned ideas.
Custom consolidates what accident may have originated; established power has a way of legitimizing itself.