John Dewey: “Not understanding its “how,” they cannot use and control its manifestations.”

The democratic public is still largely inchoate and unorganized.

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

There is therefore no necessary connection between the private character of an act and its non-social or anti-social character.

The easiest way out was to go back to the naked individual, to sweep away all associations as foreign to his nature and rights save as they proceeded from his own voluntary choice, and guaranteed his own private ends.