John Dewey: “Any human being is in one respect an association, consisting of a multitude of cells each living its own life.”

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.

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