John Dewey: “Their scope is something to be critically and experimentally determined.”

In no two ages or places is there the same public.

Personal loyalties to elders take the place of political obedience.

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.

They are made that way; it is “the nature of the beast.” We do not gain anything by inserting instincts to run, creep, swim and fly between the structure and the act.