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There are many more who protest that some special public activity, whether prohibition, a protective tariff or the expanded meaning given the Monroe Doctrine, is baleful to society.
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John Dewey
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Dewey critiques specific public policies and their perceived negative impacts on society.
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Systematic and continuous inquiry into all the conditions which affect association and their dissemination in print is a precondition of the creation of a true public.
Signs and symbols, language, are the means of communication by which a fraternally shared experience is ushered in and sustained.
But the wingèd words of conversation in immediate intercourse have a vital import lacking in the fixed and frozen words of written speech.
That and that only gives reality to public opinion.