The very ignorance, bias, frivolity, jealousy, instability, which are alleged to incapacitate them from share in political affairs, unfit them still more for passive submission to rule by intellectuals.
Dewey contends that the very qualities that disqualify the masses from political participation also make them unsuitable for passive submission to expert rule.
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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.
The ties which hold men together in action are numerous, tough and subtle.
Mistakes pile up and consolidate themselves into laws and methods of administration which are more harmful than the consequences which they were originally intended to control.
The clear consciousness of a communal life, in all its implications, constitutes the idea of democracy.