John Dewey: “But the wingèd words of conversation in immediate intercourse have a vital import lacking in the fixed and frozen words…”

What is significant is that access to means of amusement has been rendered easy and cheap beyond anything known in the past.

In short, private acts may be socially valuable both by indirect consequences and by direct intention.

There is therefore no necessary connection between the private character of an act and its non-social or anti-social character.

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