But even the most shrewd and successful man does not in any analytic and systematic way--in a way worthy to compare with the knowledge which he has won in lesser affairs by means of the stress of experience--know the system within which he operates.
Dewey reflects on how even successful individuals often lack a comprehensive understanding of the systems they navigate.
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The local communities without intent or forecast found their affairs conditioned by remote and invisible organizations.
The democratic public is still largely inchoate and unorganized.
Nor can the liberating and confirming results of public action be construed to yield a wholesale idealization of states in contrast with other associations.
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