John Dewey: “There is therefore no common interest, no public, and no need nor possibility of an inclusive state.”

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.

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…

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.