John Dewey: “The most influential form of the divorce is separation between pure and applied science.”

Is the public much more than what a cynical diplomat once called Italy: a geographical expression?

Nor can the liberating and confirming results of public action be construed to yield a wholesale idealization of states in contrast with other associations.

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.

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.