John Dewey: “Modifiable and altering human habits sustain and generate political phenomena.”

Personal loyalties to elders take the place of political obedience.

The local communities without intent or forecast found their affairs conditioned by remote and invisible organizations.

Freedom presented itself as an end in itself, though it signified in fact liberation from oppression and tradition.

There was no logic which rendered necessary the appeal to the individual as an independent and isolated being.