John Dewey: “Thus in many societies the male elders exercised such rule as obtained in virtue of the mere fact that they were old…”

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

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…

Vision is a spectator; hearing is a participator.

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