They are expressions of chosen phases and factors among those facts, but they are also something more: namely, forces which have shaped those facts and which are still contending to shape them in the future this way and that.
This quote illustrates how political ideas not only reflect but also actively shape societal facts and dynamics.
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We lie, as Emerson said, in the lap of an immense intelligence.
Ideas which are not communicated, shared, and reborn in expression are but soliloquy, and soliloquy is but broken and imperfect thought.
Vision is a spectator; hearing is a participator.
The problem of securing diffused and seminal intelligence can be solved only in the degree in which local communal life becomes a reality.