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These things are devices evolved in the direction in which the current was moving, each wave of which involved at the time of its impulsion a minimum of departure from antecedent custom and law.
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John Dewey
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Editor's note · Context
Dewey describes democratic devices as responses to social needs rather than purely ideological advancements.
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