It is better, if possible, to start from the latter and see if we are not led thereby into an idea of something which will turn out to implicate the marks and signs which characterize political behavior.
Dewey emphasizes the importance of starting from the right ideas to understand political behavior.
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The local communities without intent or forecast found their affairs conditioned by remote and invisible organizations.
What he believes, hopes for and aims at is the outcome of association and intercourse.
The idea remains barren and empty save as it is incarnated in human relationships.
The invasion of the community by the new and relatively impersonal and mechanical modes of combined human behavior is the outstanding fact of modern life.