...scholar, the American Alan-thinking, is at last quickening the " sluggard intellect of this continent to look from under its iron lids and fill the postponed...expectation of the world with something better than " all the nations have ever yet conceived — a reasonable, practicable plan for present partial accomplishment...

...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 ex-, pectation of the world with something better" than the exertions of a mechanical...

...10 cious as the sign of an indestructible instinct. Perhaps the time is already come when it ought to be, and will be, something else ; when the sluggard...this continent will look from under its iron lids l and fill the postponed expectation of the world with something bet- 15 ter than the exertions of...

...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 especially his prose, often expresses in inspiring fashion the exultant vigor,...

...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...

...precious as the sign of an indestructible instinct. Perhaps the time is already come when it ought to be, and will be, something else; when the sluggard...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...

...precious as the sign of an indestructible instinct. Perhaps the time is already come, when it ought to be, and will be, something else; when the sluggard...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,...