John Dewey: “I would not say that the latter statement applies literally to individuals, but it cannot be gainsaid that singular…”

Freedom presented itself as an end in itself, though it signified in fact liberation from oppression and tradition.

There are even those who hold that the presumption is always that social loss will result from agents of the public doing anything which could be done by persons in their private capacity.

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

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.