John Dewey: “The current runs for or against the party in power and the individual candidate sinks or swims as runs the current.”

We lie, as Emerson said, in the lap of an immense intelligence.

That and that only gives reality to public opinion.

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

Signs and symbols, language, are the means of communication by which a fraternally shared experience is ushered in and sustained.