John Dewey: “In the concrete, there are societies, associations, groups of an immense number of kinds, having different ties and…”

What he believes, hopes for and aims at is the outcome of association and intercourse.

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

Wealth and security are the natural rewards of economic virtues.

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