John Dewey: “The new conditions involved a release of human potentialities previously dormant.”

The easiest way out was to go back to the naked individual, to sweep away all associations as foreign to his nature and rights save as they proceeded from his own voluntary choice, and guaranteed his own private ends.

Personal loyalties to elders take the place of political obedience.

But he does so only at the cost of repression of those of his potentialities which can be realized only through membership in other groups.

They persist as emotional cries rather than as reasoned ideas.