John Dewey: “Officials may be mean, obstinate, proud and stupid and yet the nature…”

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Officials may be mean, obstinate, proud and stupid and yet the nature of the state which they serve remain essentially unimpaired.

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John Dewey

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He reflects on how the character of officials does not diminish the inherent nature of the state.

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But the wingèd words of conversation in immediate intercourse have a vital import lacking in the fixed and frozen words of written speech.

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

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

Vision is a spectator; hearing is a participator.

John Dewey: “Officials may be mean, obstinate, proud and stupid and yet the nature of the state which they serve remain essentially…”