John Dewey: “The prime condition of a democratically organized public is a kind of knowledge and insight which does not yet exist.”

Signs and symbols, language, are the means of communication by which a fraternally shared experience is ushered in and sustained.

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

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.

If the technological age can provide mankind with a firm and general basis of material security, it will be absorbed in a humane age.