John Dewey: “The days are past when government can be carried on without any pretense of ascertaining the wishes of the governed.”

But the wingèd words of conversation in immediate intercourse have a vital import lacking in the fixed and frozen words of written speech.

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

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

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