John Dewey: “These modes of conjoint action and their consequences profoundly affect not only the outer habits of singular persons…”

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.

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.