John Dewey: “The ballot is, as often said, a substitute for bullets.”

If one wishes to realize the distance which may lie between “facts” and the meaning of facts, let one go to the field of social discussion.

But this conclusion is an obvious invitation to trial of forces to see where superior force lies.

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…

For the older symbols of ideal life still engage thought and command loyalty.