John Dewey: “Extensive, enduring, intricate and serious indirect consequences of the conjoint activity of a comparatively few persons…”

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

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.

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.