Even if the principle of self-love actuated behavior, it would still be true that the objects in which men find their love manifested, the objects which they take as constituting their peculiar interests, are set by habits reflecting social customs.
Dewey asserts that even self-interested behavior is shaped by social customs and habits.
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Extensive, enduring, intricate and serious indirect consequences of the conjoint activity of a comparatively few persons traverse the globe.
Freedom presented itself as an end in itself, though it signified in fact liberation from oppression and tradition.
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