...declaration of independence." The speaker opened with the announcement that our day of independence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close, and took up his theme of " Man Thinking " as opposed to the parrot of other men's thoughts. " Nature...

...quote: "Perhaps the time is already come when the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids and fill the postponed expectation...millions that around us are rushing into life, cannot alwavs be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests." The scholar, according to Emerson, is Man Thinking,...

...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...to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. 1 The millions that around us are rushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign...

...Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. 1 The millions that around us are rushing into life,...always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests. Events,actions arise, that must be sung, that will sing themselves. Who can doubt that poetry will...

...related to the intellectual attitude of America in 1837, and as a protest against its provincialism. ' Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close . . . We will walk on our own feet ; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds ......

...society at Harvard. At the outset, as in the opening lines of Nature, he sounds the cry of freedom: "Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close." Then he writes of the three great influences which surround the scholar — that of nature, that of...

..."Perhaps the time has already come," he says, "when the sluggard intellect of this country will look from under its iron lids and fill the postponed expectation...exertions of mechanical skill. Our day of dependence, OUT long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions that around...

...American Alan-thinking, is at last quickening the " sluggard intellect of this continent to look from under its iron lids and fill the postponed expectation of the world with something better than " all the nations have ever yet conceived — a reasonable, practicable plan for present partial accomplishment...

...Declaration of Independence." In it Emerson sounded a new note. " Our day of dependence," he said, " our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands,...arise, that must be sung, that will sing themselves." The utterance represents a singular combination of fallacy and truth. For in the kingdom of thought,...

...Declaration of Independence." In it Emerson sounded a new note. " Our day of dependence," he said, " our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands,...cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign [47] harvests. Events, actions arise, that must be sung, that will sing themselves." The utterance...