John Dewey: “The social sciences, if these two stipulations are fulfilled, will then be an apparatus for conducting investigation…”

Extensive, enduring, intricate and serious indirect consequences of the conjoint activity of a comparatively few persons traverse the globe.

It rules but it does not regulate; for its rule is confined to receipt of tribute and ceremonial deference.

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.

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…