John Dewey: “A fourth is that it is an instrument more or less clumsy for keeping…”

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A fourth is that it is an instrument more or less clumsy for keeping individuals from quarreling too much with one another.

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John Dewey

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Dewey describes another view of the state as a tool for preventing conflicts among individuals, albeit an imperfect one.

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Vision is a spectator; hearing is a participator.

The problem of securing diffused and seminal intelligence can be solved only in the degree in which local communal life becomes a reality.

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

That and that only gives reality to public opinion.

John Dewey: “A fourth is that it is an instrument more or less clumsy for keeping individuals from quarreling too much with one…”