John Dewey: “We can hardly select a better trait to serve as a mark and sign of the nature of a state than a point just mentioned…”

That and that only gives reality to public opinion.

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

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…