John Dewey: “An alphabet is letters, and “society” is individuals in their connections with one another.”

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

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

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

They persist as emotional cries rather than as reasoned ideas.