John Dewey: “But attachment requires something more than organic causes.”

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

The problem of securing diffused and seminal intelligence can be solved only in the degree in which local communal life becomes a reality.

But the wingèd words of conversation in immediate intercourse have a vital import lacking in the fixed and frozen words of written speech.

Ideas which are not communicated, shared, and reborn in expression are but soliloquy, and soliloquy is but broken and imperfect thought.