John Dewey: “Hence the idea that men are moved by an intelligent and calculated regard for their own good is pure mythology.”

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.

Wealth and security are the natural rewards of economic virtues.

They are made that way; it is “the nature of the beast.” We do not gain anything by inserting instincts to run, creep, swim and fly between the structure and the act.

There is therefore no necessary connection between the private character of an act and its non-social or anti-social character.