John Dewey: “But no amount of aggregated collective action of itself constitutes a community.”

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.

If the technological age can provide mankind with a firm and general basis of material security, it will be absorbed in a humane age.

Publication is partial and the public which results is partially informed and formed until the meanings it purveys pass from mouth to mouth.