John Dewey: “Whatever is a barrier to the spread of the consequences of associated behavior by that very fact operates to set up…”

The invasion of the community by the new and relatively impersonal and mechanical modes of combined human behavior is the outstanding fact of modern life.

There are those who speak as if ability to choose between two tickets were a high exercise of individual freedom.

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

The democratic public is still largely inchoate and unorganized.