John Dewey: “And even as far as political arrangements are concerned, governmental institutions are but a mechanism for securing to…”

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.

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

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…