John Dewey: “The measure of value of the remote and theocratic state lies in what it does not do.”

We lie, as Emerson said, in the lap of an immense intelligence.

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

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

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