John Dewey: “Subsequent history has proved that the assumption involved illusion.”

What is significant is that access to means of amusement has been rendered easy and cheap beyond anything known in the past.

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…

They persist as emotional cries rather than as reasoned ideas.

What he believes, hopes for and aims at is the outcome of association and intercourse.