John Dewey: “The relationships of husband and wife, parent and children, older and younger children, friend and friend, are the bonds…”

That and that only gives reality to public opinion.

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.

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

We lie, as Emerson said, in the lap of an immense intelligence.