John Dewey: “Opinions and beliefs concerning the public presuppose effective and organized inquiry.”

That the state should be to some a deity and to others a devil is another evidence of the defects of the premises from which discussion sets out.

But this conclusion is an obvious invitation to trial of forces to see where superior force lies.

What he believes, hopes for and aims at is the outcome of association and intercourse.

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