It has maintained sordid slums, flurried and discontented careers, grinding poverty and luxurious wealth, brutal exploitation of nature and man in times of peace and high explosives and noxious gases in times of war.
Dewey paints a grim picture of societal issues stemming from economic disparities and exploitation.
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Signs and symbols, language, are the means of communication by which a fraternally shared experience is ushered in and sustained.
We lie, as Emerson said, in the lap of an immense intelligence.
But the wingèd words of conversation in immediate intercourse have a vital import lacking in the fixed and frozen words of written speech.
If the technological age can provide mankind with a firm and general basis of material security, it will be absorbed in a humane age.