John Dewey: “A man may be one thing as a church member and another thing as a member of the business community.”

Mistakes pile up and consolidate themselves into laws and methods of administration which are more harmful than the consequences which they were originally intended to control.

It rules but it does not regulate; for its rule is confined to receipt of tribute and ceremonial deference.

Nor can the liberating and confirming results of public action be construed to yield a wholesale idealization of states in contrast with other associations.

They are made that way; it is “the nature of the beast.” We do not gain anything by inserting instincts to run, creep, swim and fly between the structure and the act.