John Dewey: “A fourth is that it is an instrument more or less clumsy for keeping individuals from quarreling too much with one…”

Is the public much more than what a cynical diplomat once called Italy: a geographical expression?

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

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.