John Dewey: “Steam and electricity have done more to alter the conditions under which men associate together than all the agencies…”

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…

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

Signs and symbols, language, are the means of communication by which a fraternally shared experience is ushered in and sustained.

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.