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THE PUBLIC
AND ITS PROBLEMS

BY
JOHN DEWEY

ALAN SWALLOW
DENVER


COPYRIGHT, 1927,
BY
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
Copyright renewed, 1954, by Mrs. John Dewey

PRINTED IN THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA


PREFATORY NOTE

This volume is the result of lectures delivered duringthe month of January, nineteen hundred and twenty-six,upon the Larwill Foundation of Kenyon College,Ohio. In acknowledging the many courtesies received,I wish to express also my appreciation of the tolerationshown by the authorities of the College to delay inpublication. The intervening period has permitted afull revision and expansion of the lectures as originallydelivered. This fact will account for an occasionalreference to books published in the interval.

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J. D.


CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I. Search for the Public 3
Divergence of facts and theoretical interpretations concerning the nature of the state, 3. Practical import of theories, 5. Theories in terms of causal origin, 9. Theory in terms of perceived consequences, 12. Distinction of private and public substituted for that of individual and social, 13. The influence of association, 22. Plurality of associations, 26. Criterion of the public, 27. Function of the state, 28. The state as an experimental problem, 32. Summary, 34.
II. Discovery of the State 37
Public and state, 38. Geographical extent, 39. Multiplicity of states, 43. Spread of consequences, <
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