John Dewey: “Secondly, that policies and proposals for social action be treated as working hypotheses, not as programs to be rigidly…”

They are reflections into the singular human being of customs and institutions; they are not natural, that is, “native,” organic propensities.

But in this respect he does not differ from those explicitly designated public officials who have also been known to betray the interest committed to them instead of faithfully representing it.

There was no logic which rendered necessary the appeal to the individual as an independent and isolated being.

The idea remains barren and empty save as it is incarnated in human relationships.