John Dewey: “If you want certain results, certain means must be found and employed.”

But he does so only at the cost of repression of those of his potentialities which can be realized only through membership in other groups.

They are reflections into the singular human being of customs and institutions; they are not natural, that is, “native,” organic propensities.

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.

The idea remains barren and empty save as it is incarnated in human relationships.