John Dewey: “We are mostly satisfied with the result of cosmetics and with ugly slums, and oftentimes with equally ugly palaces.”

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

Personal loyalties to elders take the place of political obedience.

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

But he does so only at the cost of repression of those of his potentialities which can be realized only through membership in other groups.