The sunlight, rain, air and soil have always entered in visible ways into human experience; atoms and molecules and cells and most other things with which the sciences are occupied affect us, but not visibly.
This quote highlights the contrast between visible and invisible influences of natural elements on human experience.
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The easiest way out was to go back to the naked individual, to sweep away all associations as foreign to his nature and rights save as they proceeded from his own voluntary choice, and guaranteed his own private ends.
What is significant is that access to means of amusement has been rendered easy and cheap beyond anything known in the past.
For the very familiarity with the phenomena conceals their significance and blinds us to their relation to immediate political problems.
In other words, every officer of the public, whether he represents it as a voter or as a stated official, has a dual capacity.