John Dewey: “Developments of better methods of thinking bring about observation of consequences which were concealed from a vision…”

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.

For the very familiarity with the phenomena conceals their significance and blinds us to their relation to immediate political problems.

In short, private acts may be socially valuable both by indirect consequences and by direct intention.

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