We have returned, through this apparent excursion, to the question in which our earlier discussion culminated: What are the conditions under which it is possible for the Great Society to approach more closely and vitally the status of a Great Community, and thus take form in genuinely democratic societies and state?
Dewey poses a question about the conditions necessary for a democratic society to thrive as a community.
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Nor can the liberating and confirming results of public action be construed to yield a wholesale idealization of states in contrast with other associations.
But this conclusion is an obvious invitation to trial of forces to see where superior force lies.
The idea remains barren and empty save as it is incarnated in human relationships.
They persist as emotional cries rather than as reasoned ideas.