John Dewey: “The statement that “yesterday and even since history began, men were related to one another as individuals” is not true.”

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

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.