A man who has not been seen in the daily relations of life may inspire admiration, emulation, servile subjection, fanatical partisanship, hero worship; but not love and understanding, save as they radiate from the attachments of a near-by union.
Dewey discusses how admiration for distant figures lacks the depth of love that comes from close personal relationships.
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Competition will continue, but it will be less rivalry for acquisition of material goods, and more an emulation of local groups to enrich direct experience with appreciatively enjoyed intellectual and artistic wealth.
The problem of securing diffused and seminal intelligence can be solved only in the degree in which local communal life becomes a reality.
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