John Dewey: “The outcome of the acts of those who were engaged in forwarding the new industry and commerce was a new set of customs…”

There was no logic which rendered necessary the appeal to the individual as an independent and isolated being.

But this conclusion is an obvious invitation to trial of forces to see where superior force lies.

They are reflections into the singular human being of customs and institutions; they are not natural, that is, “native,” organic propensities.

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…