John Dewey: “Thus we are told that the public is the community as a whole, and a-community-as-a-whole is supposed to be a…”

The clear consciousness of a communal life, in all its implications, constitutes the idea of democracy.

There are even those who hold that the presumption is always that social loss will result from agents of the public doing anything which could be done by persons in their private capacity.

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