What they may do is to aid in creation of methods such that experimentation may go on less blindly, less at the mercy of accident, more intelligently, so that men may learn from their errors and profit by their successes.
Dewey advocates for methods that facilitate learning from political experimentation.
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But the wingèd words of conversation in immediate intercourse have a vital import lacking in the fixed and frozen words of written speech.
Publication is partial and the public which results is partially informed and formed until the meanings it purveys pass from mouth to mouth.
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.
That and that only gives reality to public opinion.