Just as the specialized mind and knowledge of the past is embodied in implements, utensils, devices and technologies which those of a grade of intelligence which could not produce them can now intelligently use, so it will be when currents of public knowledge blow through social affairs.
Dewey draws a parallel between past knowledge and current public knowledge in shaping society.
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If the technological age can provide mankind with a firm and general basis of material security, it will be absorbed in a humane age.
But the wingèd words of conversation in immediate intercourse have a vital import lacking in the fixed and frozen words of written speech.
We lie, as Emerson said, in the lap of an immense intelligence.
That and that only gives reality to public opinion.