John Dewey: “A mechanic can discourse of ohms and amperes as Sir Isaac Newton could not in his day.”

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

The idea remains barren and empty save as it is incarnated in human relationships.

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

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