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[walt] Whitman And [humanist Educator John] Dewey Tried To Substitute Hope For Knowledge. They Wanted To Put Shared Utopian Dreams - Dreams Of An Ideally Decent And Civilized Society - In The Place Of Knowledge Of God's Will, Moral Law, The Laws Of History, Or The Facts Of Science.... As Long As We Have A Functioning Political Left, We Still Have A Chance To Achieve Our Country, To Make It The Country Of Whitman's And Dewey's Dreams.

We Are Equal Inhabitants Of A Paradise Of Individuals In Which Everybody Has The Right To Be Understood.

The World Is Out There, But Descriptions Of The World Are Not.

"true" Resembles... A Compliment Paid To Sentences That Seem To Be Paying Their Way And That Fit In With Other Sentences Which Are Doing So.

The Difference Between People And Ideas Is... Only Superficial.