John Dewey: “The similes of the stone cast into the pool, ninepins in a row, the spark which kindles a vast conflagration, are pale…”

Signs and symbols, language, are the means of communication by which a fraternally shared experience is ushered in and sustained.

The problem of securing diffused and seminal intelligence can be solved only in the degree in which local communal life becomes a reality.

That and that only gives reality to public opinion.

Systematic and continuous inquiry into all the conditions which affect association and their dissemination in print is a precondition of the creation of a true public.