John Dewey: “The essential problem is that of transforming the action of such hands so that it will be animated by regard for social…”

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

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.

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.