John Dewey: “If we are too concerned with the former, there is a likelihood that we shall unwittingly have doctored the facts…”

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…

Signs and symbols, language, are the means of communication by which a fraternally shared experience is ushered in and sustained.

That and that only gives reality to public opinion.

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