John Dewey: “The clear consciousness of a communal life, in all its implications, constitutes the idea of democracy.”

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

Systematic and continuous inquiry into all the conditions which affect association and their dissemination in print is a precondition of the creation of a true public.

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…

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.