John Dewey: “But its meaning depends upon relation to what it imports, to what its social consequences are.”

That the state should be to some a deity and to others a devil is another evidence of the defects of the premises from which discussion sets out.

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.

But it indicates where the problem resides, whatever guise it assumes.

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…