...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...exertions of mechanical skilL Our day of dependence, oar long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions that around...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...bugle call of 1837 : "Our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands draws to a close. . . . The sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids." Whitman's later work, and especially his prose, often expresses in inspiring fashion the exultant vigor,...

...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...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...

...is struck in the introduction of his address, from which I quote: "Perhaps the time is already come when the sluggard intellect of this continent will...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,...

...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...

...instinct." "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...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...