John Dewey: “We have to consider not only its connections and ties, but the consequences with respect to which it acts and moves.”

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

Nothing better exhibits the scope of the movement than the fact that philosophic theories of knowledge made the same appeal to the self, or ego, in the form of personal consciousness identified with mind itself, that political theory made…

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

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