John Dewey: “The newer forces have created mobile and fluctuating associational forms.”

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

The invasion of the community by the new and relatively impersonal and mechanical modes of combined human behavior is the outstanding fact of modern life.

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

Nothing better exhibits the scope of the movement than the fact that philosophic theories of knowledge made the same appeal to the self, or ego, in the form of personal consciousness identified with mind itself, that political theory made…