SOURCE: A review of Freedom and Culture, in The American Political Science Review, Vol. XXXIV, No. 2, April, 1940, pp. 339-42.

In the following review of Dewey's Freedom and Culture, Merriam concludes that Dewey has a firm grasp on the theories of political science.

[Freedom and Culture] by the Nestor of American philosophy, writing at the age of eighty, is one of the most penetrating and stimulating contributions yet made to modern political science. The theory of government is already deeply indebted to Dr. Dewey's previous contributions—Democracy and Education (1916), Human Nature and Conduct (1922), The Public and Its Problems (1927), Individualism Old and New (1930), and Liberalism and Social Action (1935), not to speak of many other articles and reviews and volumes covering his observations on politics for a generation. This distillation of these works is presented in brief form in the present volume on Freedom and Culture. Space does not permit an...