John Dewey: “As symbols are related to one another, the important relations of a course of events are recorded and are preserved as…”

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.

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.

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