Later Career
In 1906, on the death of his wife, Strong moved with his daughter Margaret to Fiesole near Florence in Italy. There he wrote The Origin of Consciousness (1918), Essays in Critical Realism (1920), The Wisdom of the Beasts (1921), A Theory of Knowledge (1923), Essays on the Natural Origin of the Mind (1930), and A Creed for Sceptics (1936).
Strong died on 23 January 1940 near his Villa Le Balze, Fiesole, Italy.
His villa was left to Georgetown University by his daughter, Margaret Rockefeller Strong de Larraín, Marquesa de Cuevas (1897–1985). He was a member of the Century Club of New York.
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