John Dewey: “It has consisted in a continuous re-distribution of social integrations on the one hand and of capacities and energies…”

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.

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

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.