...Waldo Emerson in his Phi Beta Kappa oration at Harvard University prophesied that the day would come "when the sluggard intellect of this continent will...expectation of the world with something better than exertions of mechanical skill." Mr. Lewisohn thinks that prophesy has not yet come true. This criticism...

...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...

...Independence." In this Emerson pleads for an American scholarship. "Perhaps the time will come," says Emerson, "when the sluggard intellect of this continent will...something better than the exertions of mechanical skill. The millions that around us are rushing into life cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign...

...called "the American intellectual Declaration of Independence," the lecture on The American Scholar: "Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to...learning of other lands, draws to a close. . . The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of...

...sign of an indestructible instinct. Perhaps the time is already come when it ought to be, and will be, something else; when the sluggard intellect of this...postponed expectation of the world with something better than_the exertions of mechanical skill. ; Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the lean...

...institutions. The lecture on " The American Scholar " in 1837 is a literary declaration of independence. "Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close." Much as he loved and appreciated Shakespeare, he put his finger on one of the hindrances to the progress...

...their minds, Emerson issued a new manifesto in a Phi Beta Kappa Address delivered at Cambridge in 1837. "Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close," declaimed the orator. "The millions that around us are rushing into life cannot always be fed on the...

...a hopeful prophecy concerning American scholarship. " Perhaps the time is already come," said he, " when the sluggard intellect of this continent will...The millions that around us are rushing into life can not always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests. . . . Who can doubt that poetry will...

...New Englander stood outwith all judgment positive or negative, being himself nowise among the makers. "Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands" had not drawn to a close. Now, this being true of the intellect, it could hardly fail to hold of institutions...

...address to the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge, delivered on August 31, 1837, is what I found: Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. . . . Events, actions arise, that must be sung, that will sing themselves. Who can doubt that poetry...