John Dewey: “Unfortunately, when the falsity of this view was perceived, it was replaced by the idea that states “grow” or develop…”

It rules but it does not regulate; for its rule is confined to receipt of tribute and ceremonial deference.

Mistakes pile up and consolidate themselves into laws and methods of administration which are more harmful than the consequences which they were originally intended to control.

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

The invasion of the community by the new and relatively impersonal and mechanical modes of combined human behavior is the outstanding fact of modern life.