John Dewey: “Individual human beings may lose their identity in a mob or in a political convention or in a joint-stock corporation or…”

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.

That and that only gives reality to public opinion.

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

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…