John Dewey: “When the machine age has thus perfected its machinery it will be a means of life and not its despotic master.”

We lie, as Emerson said, in the lap of an immense intelligence.

Competition will continue, but it will be less rivalry for acquisition of material goods, and more an emulation of local groups to enrich direct experience with appreciatively enjoyed intellectual and artistic wealth.

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

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.