John Dewey: “Political democracy as it exists to-day calls for adverse criticism in abundance.”

Nothing better exhibits the scope of the movement than the fact that philosophic theories of knowledge made the same appeal to the self, or ego, in the form of personal consciousness identified with mind itself, that political theory made…

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 no two ages or places is there the same public.

There is therefore no necessary connection between the private character of an act and its non-social or anti-social character.