John Dewey: “Skill and ability work within a framework which we have not created and do not comprehend.”

Custom consolidates what accident may have originated; established power has a way of legitimizing itself.

The local communities without intent or forecast found their affairs conditioned by remote and invisible organizations.

The clear consciousness of a communal life, in all its implications, constitutes the idea of democracy.

Freedom presented itself as an end in itself, though it signified in fact liberation from oppression and tradition.