Aristotle could not conceive a body of citizens competent to carry on politics consisting of others than those who had leisure, that is, of those who were relieved from all other preoccupations, especially that of making a livelihood.
Dewey reflects on Aristotle's view that political participation requires leisure and freedom from economic concerns.
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We lie, as Emerson said, in the lap of an immense intelligence.
That and that only gives reality to public opinion.
If the technological age can provide mankind with a firm and general basis of material security, it will be absorbed in a humane age.
The problem of securing diffused and seminal intelligence can be solved only in the degree in which local communal life becomes a reality.