 With these rituals Dewey believes humans’ relationship to the surrounding world rose to a level where they started to reflect on their place in the order of things more intently. And the rituals formed in response to the cycles of nature started to embody the worldviews and values of the human groups that they gathered together. The rituals created a sense of community with one’s immediate fellows, as well as a sense of continuity of past generations, thereby widening and enriching “the designs of living” (AE: 29). In Dewey’s view, these rituals were “esthetic”, but they were “also more than esthetic”, for 