John Dewey: “The very things which stimulate and intensify affections may undermine attachments.”

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.

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

That and that only gives reality to public opinion.

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