...declaration of independence of the American people, as Oliver Wendell Holmes called it — he prophesied: "Our day of dependence, 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."36...

...Beta Kappa address at Harvard. Among other things, he urged a new kind of thinking among Americans: "Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close." I want a new kind of thinking regarding African American politics and democracy. And if this new thinking...

...and man of letters. Just as Emerson had yearned for the time when America's "day of dependence," and "our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close," and chided Americans for listening "too long to the courtly muses of Europe," ' so was Whitney's appeal...

...of the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical skill. Our day of independence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. (CW l, 52). Der Ausblick auf die künftige Entwicklung der amerikanischen Kultur verbindet die chronologische...

...advancement of science." Emerson informed his audience that a greater day was at hand. He declared that "our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to...always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests." America would have its literature, its poetry — would become something more than a land of commerce...

...fields of Europe."9 Ralph Waldo Emerson began his 1837 address "The American Scholar" by announcing: "Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands draws to a close."10 Whitman echoed these calls throughout his career, even in the early years. In the Brooklyn...