As a member of the union, his traits and acts are evidently those which he possesses in virtue of it, while those of the integrated association are what they are in virtue of his status in the union.
This quote reflects Dewey's view that an individual's traits and actions are shaped by their membership in a social union.
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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.
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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.