It has maintained sordid slums, flurried and discontented careers, grinding poverty and luxurious wealth, brutal exploitation of nature and man in times of peace and high explosives and noxious gases in times of war.
Dewey paints a grim picture of societal issues stemming from economic disparities and exploitation.
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The democratic public is still largely inchoate and unorganized.
The local communities without intent or forecast found their affairs conditioned by remote and invisible organizations.
But this conclusion is an obvious invitation to trial of forces to see where superior force lies.
The idea remains barren and empty save as it is incarnated in human relationships.