...is precious 33 the sign of. an indestructible instinct. 10 Perhaps the time is already come, wheri it, ought to b,e, and will be, something else ; when...intellect of this continent will look from under its, iron lids,4 and fill the postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions of...

...necessities for success. Emerson's prophecy may be realized in our day: Perhaps the time has already come, when the sluggard intellect of this continent will...expectation of the world with something better than the exertion of mechanical skill. Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other...

...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...mechanical skill. Our day of dependence, our long 1 An oration delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at Cambridge, August 31, 1837. 70 apprenticeship...

...Harvard. In this, which Holmes calls " our intellectual Declaration of Independence," Emerson says : " 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....

...Harvard. In this, which Holmes calls " our intellectual Declaration of Independence," Emerson says : " 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....

...more than seventy years ago, may be nearing its fulfillment. "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 a mechanical...

.... . . 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 a mechanical skill." To-day this prophecy is being fulfilled in the new America. Who can fail to notice...

...Declaration of Independence, and in which he expressed the hope that "perhaps the time is already come . . . when the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids and f ulfil the postponed expectation of the. world with something better than the exertions of a mechanical...

...What Emerson called "the sluggard intellect of this continent" is at last astir, and prepares to meet "the postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical skill." It is true that America has perplexity to face when we haul home the guns and open bloodless fire upon...

...welcome given to foreign books, he proceeded to say — ' It is precious as a sign of an indestrnctible instinct. Perhaps the time has already come, when...the learning of other lands, draws to a close.' The speaker himself laid the foundations of the literature of his country. Emerson's own published writings,...