John Dewey: “Since things do not attain such fulfillment but are in actuality distracted and interfered with, democracy in this sense…”

That and that only gives reality to public opinion.

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

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.

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…