John Dewey: “Man, a child in understanding of himself, has placed in his hands physical tools of incalculable power.”

The clear consciousness of a communal life, in all its implications, constitutes the idea of democracy.

Nothing better exhibits the scope of the movement than the fact that philosophic theories of knowledge made the same appeal to the self, or ego, in the form of personal consciousness identified with mind itself, that political theory made…

In other words, every officer of the public, whether he represents it as a voter or as a stated official, has a dual capacity.

But it indicates where the problem resides, whatever guise it assumes.