John Dewey: “All of them, like all things human, are mixed in quality; “society” is something to be approached and judged critically…”

In this distinction we find the germ of the distinction between the private and the public.

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

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.