John Dewey: “The problem of securing diffused and seminal intelligence can be solved only in the degree in which local communal life…”

The relationships of husband and wife, parent and children, older and younger children, friend and friend, are the bonds from which authority proceeds.

The democratic public is still largely inchoate and unorganized.

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

There are even those who hold that the presumption is always that social loss will result from agents of the public doing anything which could be done by persons in their private capacity.