John Dewey: “It arrives at decisions, makes terms and executes resolves only through the medium of individuals.”

They are reflections into the singular human being of customs and institutions; they are not natural, that is, “native,” organic propensities.

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

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

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