John Dewey: “The moral is to drop all doctrines of this kind overboard, and stick to facts verifiably ascertained.”

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.

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.

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

We lie, as Emerson said, in the lap of an immense intelligence.