John Dewey: “Persons are joined together, not because they have voluntarily chosen to be united in these forms, but because vast…”

That and that only gives reality to public opinion.

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…

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

The problem of securing diffused and seminal intelligence can be solved only in the degree in which local communal life becomes a reality.