John Dewey: “But they aid in giving definiteness and point to a fundamental question: What, after all, is the public under present…”

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.

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

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

Freedom presented itself as an end in itself, though it signified in fact liberation from oppression and tradition.