John Dewey: “How can a public be organized, we may ask, when literally it does not stay in place?”

Personal loyalties to elders take the place of political obedience.

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.

The ties which hold men together in action are numerous, tough and subtle.

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