Recollection and foresight are possible; the new medium facilitates calculation, planning, and a new kind of action which intervenes in what happens to direct its course in the interest of what is foreseen and desired.
This quote highlights how symbols facilitate planning and action based on foresight.
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Ideas which are not communicated, shared, and reborn in expression are but soliloquy, and soliloquy is but broken and imperfect thought.
Signs and symbols, language, are the means of communication by which a fraternally shared experience is ushered in and sustained.
That and that only gives reality to public opinion.
The problem of securing diffused and seminal intelligence can be solved only in the degree in which local communal life becomes a reality.