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The problem of a democratically organized public is primarily and essentially an intellectual problem, in a degree to which the political affairs of prior ages offer no parallel.
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John Dewey
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Dewey emphasizes the intellectual challenges of organizing a democratic public in modern society.
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Ideas which are not communicated, shared, and reborn in expression are but soliloquy, and soliloquy is but broken and imperfect thought.
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.
We lie, as Emerson said, in the lap of an immense intelligence.