John Dewey: “Public opinion, even if it happens to be correct, is intermittent when it is not the product of methods of investigation…”

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.

That the state should be to some a deity and to others a devil is another evidence of the defects of the premises from which discussion sets out.

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

They are reflections into the singular human being of customs and institutions; they are not natural, that is, “native,” organic propensities.