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THE THEORY OF ENVIRONMENT

Part I

The University of Chicago

THE THEORY OF ENVIRONMENT
An Outline of the History of the Idea of Milieu, and its Present Status
PART I
A DISSERTATION
SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND LITERATURE IN CANDIDACY FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
DEPARTMENT OF GERMANIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES

BY

ARMIN HAJMAN KOLLER

The Collegiate Press

George Banta Publishing Company

Menasha, Wisconsin

1918

THE THEORY OF ENVIRONMENT

PART I

An Outline of the History of the Idea of Milieu, and its Present Status

BY

ARMIN HAJMAN KOLLER, Ph.D.

Instructor in German

The University of Illinois

“.............................

He fixed thee ’mid this dance

Of plastic circumstance.”

Robert Browning, “Rabbi Ben Ezra.”

The Collegiate Press

GEORGE BANTA PUBLISHING COMPANY

MENASHA, WISCONSIN

1918

Copyright, 1918

By Armin H. Koller

TO

MY PARENTS