John Dewey: “An obvious requirement is freedom of social inquiry and of distribution of its conclusions.”

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.

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…

Personal loyalties to elders take the place of political obedience.

But he does so only at the cost of repression of those of his potentialities which can be realized only through membership in other groups.