John Dewey: “At present, many consequences are felt rather than perceived; they are suffered, but they cannot be said to be known…”

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

There are even those who hold that the presumption is always that social loss will result from agents of the public doing anything which could be done by persons in their private capacity.

But it indicates where the problem resides, whatever guise it assumes.

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