John Dewey: “Personal loyalties to elders take the place of political obedience.”

But the wingèd words of conversation in immediate intercourse have a vital import lacking in the fixed and frozen words of written speech.

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.

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