John Dewey: “Poetry, the drama, the novel, are proofs that the problem of presentation is not insoluble.”

But it indicates where the problem resides, whatever guise it assumes.

The relationships of husband and wife, parent and children, older and younger children, friend and friend, are the bonds from which authority proceeds.

There is therefore no necessary connection between the private character of an act and its non-social or anti-social character.

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…