John Dewey: “Men feel that they are caught in the sweep of forces too vast to understand or master.”

But the wingèd words of conversation in immediate intercourse have a vital import lacking in the fixed and frozen words of written speech.

Vision is a spectator; hearing is a participator.

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.

The problem of securing diffused and seminal intelligence can be solved only in the degree in which local communal life becomes a reality.