John Dewey: “The moral is to drop all doctrines of this kind overboard, and stick to facts verifiably ascertained.”

They are made that way; it is “the nature of the beast.” We do not gain anything by inserting instincts to run, creep, swim and fly between the structure and the act.

The easiest way out was to go back to the naked individual, to sweep away all associations as foreign to his nature and rights save as they proceeded from his own voluntary choice, and guaranteed his own private ends.

But he does so only at the cost of repression of those of his potentialities which can be realized only through membership in other groups.

But it indicates where the problem resides, whatever guise it assumes.