John Dewey: “It suggests that existing political and legal forms and arrangements are incompetent to deal with the situation.”

What he believes, hopes for and aims at is the outcome of association and intercourse.

Custom consolidates what accident may have originated; established power has a way of legitimizing itself.

What is significant is that access to means of amusement has been rendered easy and cheap beyond anything known in the past.

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.