Part 5, Chapter 15 Freedoms, Section 1 Summary

Dewey and Holmes always focused on the rights of society instead of the individual. It was this thinking that helped create the thoughts on individualism of the 20^th Century. To these two men, freedom was only given if there was a chance it could be taken away, and that an individual could not have a right or a freedom unless society as a whole had that same right or freedom first. This was the basis of their theories.

Part 5, Chapter 15 Freedoms, Section 1 Analysis

The author explains why Dewey and Holmes did not focus on individualism, but on society as a whole. They believed that unless a freedom or right was given by another, it was not a freedom.