John Dewey: “The belief that thought and its communication are now free simply because legal restrictions which once obtained have…”

The problem of securing diffused and seminal intelligence can be solved only in the degree in which local communal life becomes a reality.

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

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…