John Dewey: “A state which will organize to manufacture and disseminate new ideas and new ways of thinking may come into existence…”

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

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.

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…