John Dewey: “What are the conditions under which we may reasonably picture the Public emerging from its eclipse?”

If the technological age can provide mankind with a firm and general basis of material security, it will be absorbed in a humane age.

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.

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.