John Dewey: “The significant thing is that familiarity has bred indifference if not contempt.”

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.

Personal loyalties to elders take the place of political obedience.

What is significant is that access to means of amusement has been rendered easy and cheap beyond anything known in the past.

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…