John Dewey: “There is no substitute for the vitality and depth of close and direct intercourse and attachment.”

Signs and symbols, language, are the means of communication by which a fraternally shared experience is ushered in and sustained.

If the technological age can provide mankind with a firm and general basis of material security, it will be absorbed in a humane age.

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

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…