John Dewey: “It is a means of doing for a person what otherwise only his own foresight, if thoroughly reasonable, could do.”

Vision is a spectator; hearing is a participator.

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…

That and that only gives reality to public opinion.

Publication is partial and the public which results is partially informed and formed until the meanings it purveys pass from mouth to mouth.