Since the aims, desires and purposes created by a machine age do not connect with tradition, there are two sets of rival ideals, and those which have actual instrumentalities at their disposal have the advantage.
Dewey discusses the conflict between traditional and modern ideals in a machine age.
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Signs and symbols, language, are the means of communication by which a fraternally shared experience is ushered in and sustained.
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.
Vision is a spectator; hearing is a participator.
But the wingèd words of conversation in immediate intercourse have a vital import lacking in the fixed and frozen words of written speech.