John Dewey: “When traditional war-cries have lost their import in practical policies which are consonant with them, they are readily…”

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

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

Competition will continue, but it will be less rivalry for acquisition of material goods, and more an emulation of local groups to enrich direct experience with appreciatively enjoyed intellectual and artistic wealth.

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…