John Dewey: “But the inquiry which alone can furnish knowledge as a precondition of public judgments must be contemporary and…”

For the older symbols of ideal life still engage thought and command loyalty.

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

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

Mistakes pile up and consolidate themselves into laws and methods of administration which are more harmful than the consequences which they were originally intended to control.