John Dewey: “Change men’s estimate of the value of existing political agencies and forms, and the latter change more or less.”

If one wishes to realize the distance which may lie between “facts” and the meaning of facts, let one go to the field of social discussion.

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

But in this respect he does not differ from those explicitly designated public officials who have also been known to betray the interest committed to them instead of faithfully representing it.

There was no logic which rendered necessary the appeal to the individual as an independent and isolated being.