John Dewey: “We can borrow that much from the spirit and method of science even if we are ignorant of it as a specialized apparatus.”

The easiest way out was to go back to the naked individual, to sweep away all associations as foreign to his nature and rights save as they proceeded from his own voluntary choice, and guaranteed his own private ends.

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.

What is significant is that access to means of amusement has been rendered easy and cheap beyond anything known in the past.

For the very familiarity with the phenomena conceals their significance and blinds us to their relation to immediate political problems.