John Dewey: “The thoughts and aspirations congruous with them are not communicated, and hence are not common.”

Vision is a spectator; hearing is a participator.

That and that only gives reality to public opinion.

Signs and symbols, language, are the means of communication by which a fraternally shared experience is ushered in and sustained.

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…