...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...

...of an indestrnctible instinct. Perhaps the time has already come, when it ought to be, and will be, something else ; when the sluggard intellect of this...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,...

...generations of pedagogues, still survives in the literature books. I quote from the first paragraph: 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...

...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...something better than the exertions of mechanical skill. I" Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close....

...Scholar Emerson says, "The eyes of a man are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead." And again: "Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to...around us are rushing into life, cannot always be fed upon the sere remains of foreign harvests." Emerson's doctrine of self-reliance, although "sicklied...

...the new Thomas Jefferson, though he had fore-runners. In the first paragraph Emerson proclaims : ' ' Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. "We cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests." Thus the title of the oration, The...