John Dewey: “Opinions and beliefs concerning the public presuppose effective and organized inquiry.”

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…

But the wingèd words of conversation in immediate intercourse have a vital import lacking in the fixed and frozen words of written speech.

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.

Publication is partial and the public which results is partially informed and formed until the meanings it purveys pass from mouth to mouth.