...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...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,...

...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...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...

...sluggard intellect of this country 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, OUT long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions that around...

...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...

...Emerson felt he could not ignore even so shrill and vulgar a response to his famous 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...

...resources of American painting were fertilised by foreign influence. For Emerson's doctrine, that " our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands draws to a close," had been put to the test and found wanting. It could arouse a motive, and a good one; but not provide...