John Dewey: “Conditions make the consequences of associated action and the knowledge of them different.”

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.

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

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.