Territorial states and political boundaries will persist; but they will not be barriers which impoverish experience by cutting man off from his fellows; they will not be hard and fast divisions whereby external separation is converted into inner jealousy, fear, suspicion and hostility.
Dewey argues that political boundaries should not hinder human connections and experiences.
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The democratic public is still largely inchoate and unorganized.
They are made that way; it is “the nature of the beast.” We do not gain anything by inserting instincts to run, creep, swim and fly between the structure and the act.
They are reflections into the singular human being of customs and institutions; they are not natural, that is, “native,” organic propensities.
In this distinction we find the germ of the distinction between the private and the public.