...paragraph of "The American Scholar," Emerson himself engaged in an act of "conscious decentralization" — "Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close" — and at the same time exhorted his audience to "fill the postponed expectation of the world with...

...a lesson that Nehru extracts from Emerson by splicing together passages from "The American Scholar" ("our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close") and "SelfReliance" ("the rage for traveling is a symptom of a deeper unsoundness"). Nehru abandons...

...postponed expectations of the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical skill. Oar day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the...remains of foreign harvests. Events, actions arise, that most be sung, that will sing themselves. Who can doubt that poetry will revive and lead in a new age,...

...intellectual leader, carrying his message to lecture halls as well as publishing it in essays. "Our days of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close," he had announced in 1837. "The millions that around us are rushing into life, cannot always be fed...

...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...always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests" (E&L 53). This opening theme is reverted to in the final paragraph: "We have listened too long to the...

...address to the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Harvard in 1837, Emerson famously declares the following hope: Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to...always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests .... In this hope I accept the topic which not only usage but the nature of our association seem to...

...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...to the learning of other lands, draws to a close." In looking at Europe, Americans took great pride in their country's newness, its vitality and energy,...

...cease deferring to European traditions and, instead, to read experience and nature as primary texts. "Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close," Emerson said in words that connect political emancipation to educational independence (64). "Colleges...

...Byles's example will lead the way to literary separation from England and Europe; and Emerson urges that "our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close" (McMichael 1: 837). One is left wondering whether Emerson, had he been aware of these earlier attempts...

...continent will look from under its iron lids and fill the postponed expectation of the world. . . . Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close" ( Whicher, 63-64).27 Scholars in Native studies have been anything but sluggards over the past three...