John Dewey: “But they also suggest that actual states exhibit traits which perform the function that has been stated and which serve…”

Publication is partial and the public which results is partially informed and formed until the meanings it purveys pass from mouth to mouth.

We lie, as Emerson said, in the lap of an immense intelligence.

So to the patent objection that the state is a very modern institution, it is replied that while modernity is a property of those structures which go by the name of states, yet all history, or almost all, records the exercise of analogous…

If the technological age can provide mankind with a firm and general basis of material security, it will be absorbed in a humane age.