John Dewey: “Pioneer conditions put a high premium upon personal work, skill, ingenuity, initiative and adaptability, and upon…”

The ties which hold men together in action are numerous, tough and subtle.

But he does so only at the cost of repression of those of his potentialities which can be realized only through membership in other groups.

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.