John Dewey: “But the wingèd words of conversation in immediate intercourse have a vital import lacking in the fixed and frozen words…”

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

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.

The relationships of husband and wife, parent and children, older and younger children, friend and friend, are the bonds from which authority proceeds.

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