John Dewey: “Popular government has at least created public spirit even if its success in informing that spirit has not been great.”

But in this respect he does not differ from those explicitly designated public officials who have also been known to betray the interest committed to them instead of faithfully representing it.

What is significant is that access to means of amusement has been rendered easy and cheap beyond anything known in the past.

The clear consciousness of a communal life, in all its implications, constitutes the idea of democracy.

Is the public much more than what a cynical diplomat once called Italy: a geographical expression?