John Dewey: “Moreover, interference with a well-established habit is followed by uneasiness and antipathy.”

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

Ideas which are not communicated, shared, and reborn in expression are but soliloquy, and soliloquy is but broken and imperfect thought.

Vision is a spectator; hearing is a participator.

So to the patent objection that the state is a very modern institution, it is replied that while modernity is a property of those structures which go by the name of states, yet all history, or almost all, records the exercise of analogous…