John Dewey: “Initiative, inventiveness, foresight and planning were also stimulated and confirmed.”

In short, private acts may be socially valuable both by indirect consequences and by direct intention.

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

The invasion of the community by the new and relatively impersonal and mechanical modes of combined human behavior is the outstanding fact of modern life.

They are made that way; it is “the nature of the beast.” We do not gain anything by inserting instincts to run, creep, swim and fly between the structure and the act.