John Dewey: “About the most we can ask of the state, judging from states which have so far existed, is that it put up with their…”

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.

For the very familiarity with the phenomena conceals their significance and blinds us to their relation to immediate political problems.

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…

For the older symbols of ideal life still engage thought and command loyalty.