John Dewey: “There is therefore no necessary connection between the private character of an act and its non-social or anti-social…”

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.

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

There are those who speak as if ability to choose between two tickets were a high exercise of individual freedom.

Is the public much more than what a cynical diplomat once called Italy: a geographical expression?