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What has happened to the Public in the century and a half since the theory of political democracy was urged with such assurance and hope?
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John Dewey
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Dewey reflects on the changes in the concept of the public since the rise of political democracy.
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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.
But the wingèd words of conversation in immediate intercourse have a vital import lacking in the fixed and frozen words of written speech.
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.