John Dewey: “We shall then be driven, unless we have recourse to mysticism, to decide that the public is born in a myth and is…”

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

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.

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

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