John Dewey: “In its deepest and richest sense a community must always remain a matter of face-to-face intercourse.”

Nothing better exhibits the scope of the movement than the fact that philosophic theories of knowledge made the same appeal to the self, or ego, in the form of personal consciousness identified with mind itself, that political theory made…

It rules but it does not regulate; for its rule is confined to receipt of tribute and ceremonial deference.

The invasion of the community by the new and relatively impersonal and mechanical modes of combined human behavior is the outstanding fact of modern life.

Extensive, enduring, intricate and serious indirect consequences of the conjoint activity of a comparatively few persons traverse the globe.