John Dewey: “Our Babel is not one of tongues but of the signs and symbols without which shared experience is impossible.”

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 easiest way out was to go back to the naked individual, to sweep away all associations as foreign to his nature and rights save as they proceeded from his own voluntary choice, and guaranteed his own private ends.

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

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