John Dewey: “The local is the ultimate universal, and as near an absolute as exists.”

That the state should be to some a deity and to others a devil is another evidence of the defects of the premises from which discussion sets out.

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…

The idea remains barren and empty save as it is incarnated in human relationships.

In short, private acts may be socially valuable both by indirect consequences and by direct intention.