...called "the American intellectual Declaration of Independence," the lecture on The American Scholar: "Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to...learning of other lands, draws to a close. . . The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of...

...institutions. The lecture on " The American Scholar " in 1837 is a literary declaration of independence. "Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close." Much as he loved and appreciated Shakespeare, he put his finger on one of the hindrances to the progress...

...ought to be, and will be, something else; when the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids and fill the postponed expectation of the world with something better than_the exertions of mechanical skill. ; Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the lean...

...their minds, Emerson issued a new manifesto in a Phi Beta Kappa Address delivered at Cambridge in 1837. "Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close," declaimed the orator. "The millions that around us are rushing into life cannot always be fed on the...

...the time is already come," said he, " when the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids and fill the postponed expectation...The millions that around us are rushing into life can not always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests. . . . Who can doubt that poetry will...

...individual, national. In the familiar, more explicitly national note of the following year, he declared, "Our long apprenticeship to the learning of other...always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests." Likewise, in the same address he exalted "everything which tends to insulate the individual . . . \...

...New Englander stood outwith all judgment positive or negative, being himself nowise among the makers. "Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands" had not drawn to a close. Now, this being true of the intellect, it could hardly fail to hold of institutions...

...address to the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge, delivered on August 31, 1837, is what I found: Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. . . . Events, actions arise, that must be sung, that will sing themselves. Who can doubt that poetry...

...under the influence of Europe as the easel pictures. Many years have passed since Emerson wrote : " Our long apprenticeship to the learning of •other lands draws to a close." The "close" has not been reached yet, and it may take longer •than the generation prophesied by Dr. Bode....

...particularly Americans, are ready to slough off the past. Emerson writes in the first paragraph that "our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close," and in the last paragraph he predicts that "we will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own...