Dewey was seeing many things in new relations, and attempting to express original insights. He would try again and again to make his meaning clear, putting his thought now in this form and now in that. In his many pages it is not easy to find the most revealing formulation. A compilation like Dr. Winn’s, where the most penetrating and suggestive statements have been carefully singled out and classified, can be of immense help, both to the reader manfully making his way through Dewey’s arguments, and to the man who wants ready access to Dewey’s most incisive thought on crucial points. For Dewey is a master of the pithy saying of compressed incisive thought. These apothegms are to full of suggestion and wisdom to be left buried in the discursive pages in which they are embedded. Dr Winn has had the brilliant idea to select many of the best and let them stand on their own feet. And his success reveals how well Dewey lends himself to such a culling.
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