...declaration of independence." The speaker opened with the announcement that our day of independence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close, and took up his theme of " Man Thinking " as opposed to the parrot of other men's thoughts. " Nature...

...from which I quote: "Perhaps the time is already come when the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids and fill the postponed...The millions that around us are rushing into life, cannot alwavs be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests." The scholar, according to Emerson, is...

...come when it ought to be, and will be, something else ; when the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids and fill the postponed...The millions that around us are rushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests. Events, actions arise, that must be sung,...

...come when it ought to be, and will be, something else; when the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids and fill the postponed...to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. 1 The millions that around us are rushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign...

...: when it ought to be, and will be, something else; ; when the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids and fill the postponed...apprenticeship^ to the learning of other lands, draws to a close.1 / I The millions that around us are rushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains...

...come, when it ought to be, and will be, something else ; when the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids, and fill the postponed...The millions, that around us are rushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests. Events, actions arise, that must be sung,...

...come when it ought to be and will be something else; when 'the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids and fill the postponed...The millions that around us are rushing into life cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests. Events, actions arise, that must be sung,...

...Emerson delivered an Address at Cambridge which sounded a trumpet note. Thus rang the thrilling strain : "Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to...The millions that around us are rushing into life cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests. Events, actions arise that must be sung,...

...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...

...related to the intellectual attitude of America in 1837, and as a protest against its provincialism. ' 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 ......