John Dewey: “The idea of democracy is a wider and fuller idea than can be exemplified in the state even at its best.”

Competition will continue, but it will be less rivalry for acquisition of material goods, and more an emulation of local groups to enrich direct experience with appreciatively enjoyed intellectual and artistic wealth.

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

We lie, as Emerson said, in the lap of an immense intelligence.

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