Only habit and tradition, rather than reasoned conviction, together with a vague faith in doing one’s civic duty, send to the polls a considerable percentage of the fifty per cent. who still vote.
Dewey argues that many voters are driven by habit rather than informed conviction when participating in elections.
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Vision is a spectator; hearing is a participator.
That and that only gives reality to public opinion.
The problem of securing diffused and seminal intelligence can be solved only in the degree in which local communal life becomes a reality.
We lie, as Emerson said, in the lap of an immense intelligence.