John Dewey: “But they aid in giving definiteness and point to a fundamental question: What, after all, is the public under present…”

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

But this conclusion is an obvious invitation to trial of forces to see where superior force lies.

There was no logic which rendered necessary the appeal to the individual as an independent and isolated being.