One of its commonest forms is a truly religious idealization of, and reverence for, established institutions; for example in our own politics, the Constitution, the Supreme Court, private property, free contract and so on.
Dewey critiques the reverence for established institutions as a form of idealization.
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Ideas which are not communicated, shared, and reborn in expression are but soliloquy, and soliloquy is but broken and imperfect thought.
We lie, as Emerson said, in the lap of an immense intelligence.
Vision is a spectator; hearing is a participator.
The problem of securing diffused and seminal intelligence can be solved only in the degree in which local communal life becomes a reality.