...conversing, beholding and beholden. The scholar is he of all men whom this spectacle most engages. . . . Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to...arise, that must be sung, that will sing themselves." It is almost impossible to overrate the importance and the extent of Emerson's thoroughly wholesome...

...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 continent will look from under its iron lids and fill the postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions...remains of foreign harvests. Events, actions arise, I that must be sung, that will sing them- , selves. Who can doubt that poetry will revive and lead...

...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...

...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 of mechanical skill. The millions that around us are rushing into life cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign...

...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...

...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, our long apprenticeship to the lean ing of other lands, draws to a close.J The millions- the around us are rushing into life, cannot...

...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...

...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...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...

...individual, national. In the familiar, more explicitly national note of the following year, he declared, "Our long apprenticeship to the learning of other...always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests." Likewise, in the same address he exalted "everything which tends to insulate the individual . . . \...