John Dewey: “If we look in the wrong place for the public we shall never locate the state.”

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.

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…

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

Vision is a spectator; hearing is a participator.