John Dewey: “In the release of new powers singular persons were emancipated from a mass of old habits, regulations and institutions.”

Nor can the liberating and confirming results of public action be construed to yield a wholesale idealization of states in contrast with other associations.

But in this respect he does not differ from those explicitly designated public officials who have also been known to betray the interest committed to them instead of faithfully representing it.

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…

If one wishes to realize the distance which may lie between “facts” and the meaning of facts, let one go to the field of social discussion.