John Dewey: “Without such communication the public will remain shadowy and formless, seeking spasmodically for itself, but seizing…”

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.

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.