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If the masses are as intellectually irredeemable as its premise implies, they at all events have both too many desires and too much power to permit rule by experts to obtain.
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John Dewey
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gutenberg.orgJohn Dewey: “If the masses are as intellectually irredeemable as its premise implies, they at all events have both too many desires…”
Editor's note · Context
Dewey posits that if the masses are deemed intellectually incapable, their desires and power would still prevent expert rule.
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We lie, as Emerson said, in the lap of an immense intelligence.
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.
Publication is partial and the public which results is partially informed and formed until the meanings it purveys pass from mouth to mouth.