John Dewey: “They relieve the mind from thought of means, thus freeing thought to deal with new conditions and purposes.”

They are made that way; it is “the nature of the beast.” We do not gain anything by inserting instincts to run, creep, swim and fly between the structure and the act.

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.

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

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