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A large part of the indictments which are now drawn against technological industry are chargeable to the unchanged persistence of a legal institution inherited from the pre-industrial age.
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John Dewey
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Dewey argues that many criticisms of technological industry stem from outdated legal institutions.
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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.
We lie, as Emerson said, in the lap of an immense intelligence.
Ideas which are not communicated, shared, and reborn in expression are but soliloquy, and soliloquy is but broken and imperfect thought.
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