John Dewey: “Meanwhile the liberating effect was markedly conspicuous with respect…”

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Meanwhile the liberating effect was markedly conspicuous with respect to the members of the “middle-class,” the manufacturing and mercantile class.

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John Dewey

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Dewey observes the liberating effects of new conditions on the middle class.

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Extensive, enduring, intricate and serious indirect consequences of the conjoint activity of a comparatively few persons traverse the globe.

It rules but it does not regulate; for its rule is confined to receipt of tribute and ceremonial deference.

If one wishes to realize the distance which may lie between “facts” and the meaning of facts, let one go to the field of social discussion.

They persist as emotional cries rather than as reasoned ideas.

John Dewey: “Meanwhile the liberating effect was markedly conspicuous with respect to the members of the “middle-class,” the…”