John Dewey: “Representative government must at least seem to be founded on public interests as they are revealed to public belief.”

So to the patent objection that the state is a very modern institution, it is replied that while modernity is a property of those structures which go by the name of states, yet all history, or almost all, records the exercise of analogous…

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

That and that only gives reality to public opinion.

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