John Dewey: “That social “evolution” has been either from collectivism to…”

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That social “evolution” has been either from collectivism to individualism or the reverse is sheer superstition.

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John Dewey

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Dewey argues against the simplistic view of social evolution as a linear shift between collectivism and individualism.

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Publication is partial and the public which results is partially informed and formed until the meanings it purveys pass from mouth to mouth.

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

Ideas which are not communicated, shared, and reborn in expression are but soliloquy, and soliloquy is but broken and imperfect thought.

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

John Dewey: “That social “evolution” has been either from collectivism to individualism or the reverse is sheer superstition.”