John Dewey: “There is therefore no necessary connection between the private character of an act and its non-social or anti-social…”

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.

That and that only gives reality to public opinion.

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…

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