John Dewey: “The statement that “yesterday and even since history began, men were related to one another as individuals” is not true.”

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

The ties which hold men together in action are numerous, tough and subtle.

In no two ages or places is there the same public.

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