John Dewey: “Moreover, interference with a well-established habit is followed by uneasiness and antipathy.”

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

Ideas which are not communicated, shared, and reborn in expression are but soliloquy, and soliloquy is but broken and imperfect thought.

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…

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.