John Dewey: “It will have its consummation when free social inquiry is indissolubly wedded to the art of full and moving…”

Wealth and security are the natural rewards of economic virtues.

But in this respect he does not differ from those explicitly designated public officials who have also been known to betray the interest committed to them instead of faithfully representing it.

In this distinction we find the germ of the distinction between the private and the public.

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.