John Dewey: “But there is something deep within human nature itself which pulls toward settled relationships.”

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

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.

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…

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