John Dewey: “Without freedom of expression, not even methods of social inquiry can be developed.”

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.

There was no logic which rendered necessary the appeal to the individual as an independent and isolated being.

Freedom presented itself as an end in itself, though it signified in fact liberation from oppression and tradition.

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…