For, as far as they are justified--and no candid believer can deny that many of them are only too well grounded--they arouse him to bestir himself in order that the idea may find a more adequate machinery through which to work.
Dewey acknowledges that valid criticisms can motivate believers to improve democratic systems.
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Custom consolidates what accident may have originated; established power has a way of legitimizing itself.
Nor can the liberating and confirming results of public action be construed to yield a wholesale idealization of states in contrast with other associations.
There was no logic which rendered necessary the appeal to the individual as an independent and isolated being.
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