...time has already come," he says, " when the sluggard intellect of this country will look from ander its iron lids and fill the postponed expectation of...The millions that around us are rushing into life can not always be fed with the sere remains of foreign harvests." Benjamin Peirce, a graduate of Harvard...

...letters any more. As such it is precious as the sign of an indestructible instinct. Perhaps the time is already come when it ought to be, and will be, something...something better than the exertions of mechanical skill. . . . The theory of books is noble. The scholar of the first age received into him the world around...

...letters any more. As such it is precious as the sign of an indestructible instinct. Perhaps the time is already come when it ought to be, and will be, something...something better than the exertions of mechanical skill. . . . The theory of books is noble. The scholar of the first age received into him the world around;...

...function of the public school and the college. Pleading- for self-reliance and more originality he said : "Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to...The millions that around us are rushing into life can not always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests. Events and actions arise that must be...

...sluggard intellect of this continent to look from under its iron lids and fill the postponed expectations of the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical skill.' The following year he disturbed the ministers as much as he had previously the poets and philosophers....

...instinct." " Perhaps the time is already come," he says, " when the sluggard intellect of this country will look from under its iron lids and fill the postponed...The millions that around us are rushing into life can not always be fed with the sere remains of foreign harvests." Benjamin Peirce, a graduate of Harvard...

...things of the higher life, he smote like an angel of light. "Perhaps the time is already come . . . when the sluggard intellect of this continent will...something better than the exertions of mechanical skill." 2 "We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. . . . We will walk on our own feet; we...

...things of the higher life, he smote like an angel of light. " Perhaps the time is already come . . . when the sluggard intellect of this continent will...something better than the exertions of mechanical , skill."2 "We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. . . . We will walk on our own...

...partially achieved when Emerson spoke those memorable words:— " Perhaps the time is already come . . . when the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids and fulfill the postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical...

...letters any more. As such it is precious as the sign of an indestructible instinct. Pers japs the time is already come when it ought to be, and will be, something...mechanical skill. Our day of dependence, our long apprentice\ ship to the learning of other lands, draws to \ 149 a close. The millions that around us...