John Dewey: “But there is no comparable attention and willingness to expend funds to investigate the causes of these troubles.”

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

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.

But the wingèd words of conversation in immediate intercourse have a vital import lacking in the fixed and frozen words of written speech.

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…