John Dewey: “Meanwhile the technological application of the complex apparatus which is science has revolutionized the conditions…”

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

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.

That the state should be to some a deity and to others a devil is another evidence of the defects of the premises from which discussion sets out.

But in this respect he does not differ from those explicitly designated public officials who have also been known to betray the interest committed to them instead of faithfully representing it.