John Dewey: “The newer an idea or plan, the more it deviates from what is already recognized and established in practice.”

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.

If one wishes to realize the distance which may lie between “facts” and the meaning of facts, let one go to the field of social discussion.

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.

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