Application in life would signify that science was absorbed and distributed; that it was the instrumentality of that common understanding and thorough communication which is the precondition of the existence of a genuine and effective public.
This quote envisions a future where science is fully integrated into public understanding and communication.
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The problem of securing diffused and seminal intelligence can be solved only in the degree in which local communal life becomes a reality.
Ideas which are not communicated, shared, and reborn in expression are but soliloquy, and soliloquy is but broken and imperfect thought.
Competition will continue, but it will be less rivalry for acquisition of material goods, and more an emulation of local groups to enrich direct experience with appreciatively enjoyed intellectual and artistic wealth.
If the technological age can provide mankind with a firm and general basis of material security, it will be absorbed in a humane age.