Just as the specialized mind and knowledge of the past is embodied in implements, utensils, devices and technologies which those of a grade of intelligence which could not produce them can now intelligently use, so it will be when currents of public knowledge blow through social affairs.
Dewey draws a parallel between past knowledge and current public knowledge in shaping society.
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But it indicates where the problem resides, whatever guise it assumes.
What is significant is that access to means of amusement has been rendered easy and cheap beyond anything known in the past.
Nor can the liberating and confirming results of public action be construed to yield a wholesale idealization of states in contrast with other associations.
Is the public much more than what a cynical diplomat once called Italy: a geographical expression?