The Theory of Environment / An Outline of the History of the Idea of Milieu, and Its Present Status, part 1

by Armin Hajman Koller

[177]. See Barth, l.c., pp. 231 f.

[178]. Ibid., p. 233.—Mougeoulle makes the milieu account for the great men in history, the great popular epics, social and historical life in general; the tendencies of the three historical schools—German, French, and English—are connected with the differences in the milieus of their respective countries.—Cf. ibid., pp. 230–2.

[179]. Avec une Préface de M. Élisée Réclus (Paris: Hachette, 1889, 369 pp.), pp. 53–71.

[180]. Ibid., p. 156; 130.

[181]. Ibid., p. 154; 157 f.

[182]. Ibid., p. 278; 190 ff.; 188; 135.—But why does he confine himself to these four countries?

[183]. Ibid., p. 185; 364. For a general statement on the significance of rivers, cf. ibid., pp. 188–90. The particular nature of the rivers of the “territoire des civilisations fluviales” imposed on the inhabitants the yoke of despotism.—Ibid., p. 161.

[184]. Ibid., pp. 364 f.

[185]. Ibid., p. 364.

[186]. Ibid., e.g., p. 128; 224–27.