John Dewey: “An obvious requirement is freedom of social inquiry and of distribution of its conclusions.”

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

There are even those who hold that the presumption is always that social loss will result from agents of the public doing anything which could be done by persons in their private capacity.

In this distinction we find the germ of the distinction between the private and the public.

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.