Economic agencies produce one result when they are left to work themselves out on the merely physical level, or on that level modified only as the knowledge, skill and technique which the community has accumulated are transmitted to its members unequally and by chance.
Dewey discusses how economic forces can yield different results based on the equitable distribution of knowledge and skills.
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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.
Signs and symbols, language, are the means of communication by which a fraternally shared experience is ushered in and sustained.
That and that only gives reality to public opinion.