スコット・ニアリング
He was talented and had immense vitality. Until young manhood he accepted his place in the Tsarist social pattern and generally conformed to it. After some drastic experiences and much soul searching, Leo Tolstoi challenged the social system under which he lived to mortal combat. From that point until the day he left home and died in a railway station in his final attempt to win out against group pressures, his life consisted of combats with members of his family, with members of the neighboring nobility, with the army, with the Tsarist autocracy and with the established church.
反体制的な個人と集団の間の緊張関係は、うらやましいものであるとニアリングは考えていた。孤独な個人と共同体の間の対立において、ニアリングは3つの可能性しかないとした。
(1) The individual may win out and impose himself and his ideas upon the group.
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