If we do not ask what are the conditions which promote and obstruct the organization of the public into a social group with definite functions, we shall never grasp the problem involved in the development and transformation of states.
Dewey stresses the importance of examining conditions that affect the organization of the public for grasping state development.
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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.
Mistakes pile up and consolidate themselves into laws and methods of administration which are more harmful than the consequences which they were originally intended to control.
Nor can the liberating and confirming results of public action be construed to yield a wholesale idealization of states in contrast with other associations.
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