John Dewey: “Uniformity and standardization may provide an underlying basis for differentiation and liberation of individual…”

The democratic public is still largely inchoate and unorganized.

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

Extensive, enduring, intricate and serious indirect consequences of the conjoint activity of a comparatively few persons traverse the globe.

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.