John Dewey: “Only geographically did Columbus discover a new world.”

Publication is partial and the public which results is partially informed and formed until the meanings it purveys pass from mouth to mouth.

If the technological age can provide mankind with a firm and general basis of material security, it will be absorbed in a humane age.

Ideas which are not communicated, shared, and reborn in expression are but soliloquy, and soliloquy is but broken and imperfect thought.

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.