John Dewey: “The best that metaphysical monistic philosophies of politics can do with this fact is to ignore it.”

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.

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.

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