John Dewey: “In these facts we have the ground of the common antithesis set up between society and the individual.”

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.

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…

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