In savage culture a superior man will be superior to his fellows, but his knowledge and judgment will lag in many matters far behind that of an inferiorly endowed person in an advanced civilization.
Dewey discusses how cultural context can affect knowledge and judgment across different civilizations.
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We lie, as Emerson said, in the lap of an immense intelligence.
But the wingèd words of conversation in immediate intercourse have a vital import lacking in the fixed and frozen words of written speech.
Publication is partial and the public which results is partially informed and formed until the meanings it purveys pass from mouth to mouth.
Signs and symbols, language, are the means of communication by which a fraternally shared experience is ushered in and sustained.