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John Dewey: “What the faithful insist upon, however, is that the idea and its external organs and structures are not to be…”

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What the faithful insist upon, however, is that the idea and its external organs and structures are not to be identified.
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John Dewey

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Dewey insists that the idea of democracy should not be conflated with its institutional forms.

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