John Dewey: “The social sciences, if these two stipulations are fulfilled, will then be an apparatus for conducting investigation…”

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

Nothing better exhibits the scope of the movement than the fact that philosophic theories of knowledge made the same appeal to the self, or ego, in the form of personal consciousness identified with mind itself, that political theory made…

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.

In other words, every officer of the public, whether he represents it as a voter or as a stated official, has a dual capacity.