John Dewey: “All values which result from any kind of association are habitually imputed by one school of social philosophers to the…”

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

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.

If the technological age can provide mankind with a firm and general basis of material security, it will be absorbed in a humane age.

That and that only gives reality to public opinion.