...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...

...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...of other lands, draws to a close. The millions that -STCUh-d iis are rushing into life cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests. Events,...

...wake them, and they shall quit the false gods and leap to the true." He sees in the future a time " when the sluggard intellect of this continent will...something better than the exertions of mechanical skill." He has a joy in the dignity and necessity of labor, and calls that man great who can move other men...

...American Scholar. Rising to address that body of scholars, he said : " Perhaps the time is already come when the sluggard intellect of this continent will...look from under its iron lids, and fill the postponed expectations of the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical skill. Our day of...

...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 fulfil the postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions of a mechanical...

...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...under its iron lids and fill the postponed expectation 15 of the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical skill. Our day of dependence,...

...indestructible instinct. 10 Perhaps the time is already come, wheri it, ought to b,e, and will be, something else ; when the sluggard 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...

...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...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....