For because of the phenomenon of helpless infancy even such a primitive régime depends upon the assistance of associated action, including that most valuable form of assistance: learning from others.
This quote emphasizes the importance of social interaction and learning in overcoming primitive conditions.
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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.
Vision is a spectator; hearing is a participator.
Competition will continue, but it will be less rivalry for acquisition of material goods, and more an emulation of local groups to enrich direct experience with appreciatively enjoyed intellectual and artistic wealth.
But the wingèd words of conversation in immediate intercourse have a vital import lacking in the fixed and frozen words of written speech.