John Dewey: “The function of art has always been to break through the crust of conventionalized and routine consciousness.”

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

Vision is a spectator; hearing is a participator.

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

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…