John Dewey: “The rule has been to look with suspicion and greet with hostility the appearance of anything new, even a tool or…”

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

That and that only gives reality to public opinion.

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.