Nearing's upbringing was that of a young bourgeois, his mother employing a part-time tutor and two Polish servants to clean the gleaming white house atop a hill overlooking the town.

Nearing's father was a small businessman and stockbroker, his mother a vigorous, energetic, and idealistic woman who Nearing later credited for providing an appreciation of the higher things in life — nature, books, and the arts.

" The Board of Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania was heavily stacked with bankers, corporation lawyers, financiers, and corporation executives, and Nearing's writing had not gone unnoticed.

" Reaction to Nearing's dismissal from the academy was swift, with department head Patten and others issuing statements condemning the decision.

The intense nationalistic feeling that swept the country now that America was embroiled at last in the war in Europe spelled the end of Nearing's Toledo days, as he later recalled in his memoirs:

Cash was earned from producing maple syrup and maple sugar from the trees on their land and from Scott Nearing's occasional paid lectures.

His death was a conscious leaving of life brought about by fasting, a decision and experience described in his wife Helen Nearing's memoir, Loving and Leaving the Good Life.

Scott Nearing's journey over a century was neatly ( albeit perhaps facilely ) described by one biographer as follows:

Also ( as mentioned in Helen Nearing's own autobiographical Loving and Leaving the Good Life ), Hay Bright makes clear that they were not extremely " vegan " in their vegetarianism ( for instance, they ate yogurt and even ice cream ), and that they made good and regular use of the volunteer labor of young idealistic visitors who were always warmly welcomed and fed a hearty meal of fresh greens, Helen's famous soup, and Scott's gruel — a combination of raw oats, raisins, peanut butter and honey.

Nearing's grandfather, Winfield Scott Nearing, had arrived in Tioga County with his family in 1864, at the age of 35, when he accepted a job as a civil and mining engineer.

Nearing's aggressive social activism in the classroom and through the printed word brought him into conflict with his own employers at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, resulting in his dismissal and his emergence as a cause célèbre of the American radical movement for the next decade.

An intense, driven man, Scott Nearing's grandfather studied science and nature, practiced gardening and carpentry, and regularly received crates of books from New York City, amassing a large personal library.

" Scott Nearing's radical worldview would stay with him for the rest of his life.

On the morning of June 16, 1915, Nearing's secretary telephoned him to report that a letter from the Provost had arrived, which noted that " as the term of your appointment as assistant professor of economics for 1914-1915 is about to expire, I am directed by the trustees of the University of Pennsylvania to inform you that it will not be renewed.

Nearing's tenuous situation had been exacerbated by an open letter to The North American in which he challenged the right wing evangelist Billy Sunday to apply the Gospel to the conditions of industrial capitalism, including " the railroad interests ... the traction company ... the manufacturers ... the vested interests.

Cooperators were, by the nature of their task, localized and conservative in their makeup, in Nearing's view.

These speaking tours continued into the early 1930s, by which time public interest in attending live speeches and debates on political themes had waned and ill health forced Nearing's agent into retirement.

As the Vietnam War took center stage in the mid-1960s, and as a large back-to-the-land movement developed in the U. S., a renewed interest in Nearing's work and ideas occurred.

Hundreds of anti-war believers flocked to Nearing's home in Maine to learn homesteading practical-living skills, some also to hear a master radical's anti-war message.

" Nearing's intellectual development followed a path of increasing awareness of the intransigence of the dominant classes of capitalist culture to adopt reforms that would spread the enlightenment and opportunities of the leisure classes to society as a whole.

The secessions in his life were progressive repudiations of American canons of moral conduct as well as indications of Nearing's perception of the fragmented, segmented, discontinuous nature of American society.

Another possible reading of Nearing's motivations and decision-making lies in his own writing.

* Scott Nearing's Address to the Jury.

Nearing's Summing-Up Speech ; 2.

Roots of this movement can perhaps be traced to some of Bradford Angier's books, such as At Home in the Woods ( 1951 ) and We Like it Wild ( 1963 ), or perhaps even more compellingly to the 1954 publication of Helen and Scott Nearing's book, Living the Good Life.

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