“As regards crimes against property there is a marked increase in the winter (theft and forgery being the most abundant in January), while the other seasons differ little from one another....”—Lombroso, Crime, Its Causes and Remedies, pp. 4–8. “Superintendents of prisons have generally observed that the inmates are more excited when storms are approaching and during the first quarter of the moon....”—Ibid., p. 12.
[290]. Ibid., p. 13.—“In studying the distribution of simple and aggravated homicides in Europe, we find the highest figures in Italy and the other southern countries, and the lowest in the more northerly regions, England, Denmark, Germany. The same can be said of political uprisings in all Europe. We see, in fact, that the number of crimes increases as we go from north to south, and in the same measure as the heat increases.”—Ibid., p. 14.
[291]. This follows Laing. See Robertson, Buckle and his Critics (London, 1895), p. 553.—Cf. also C. M. Gießler’s article, “Über den Einfluß von Wärme und Kälte auf das seelische Funktionieren des Menschen,” in Vierteljahrsschrift für wissenschaftliche Philosophie u. Soziologie, 1902, pp. 319–38. Gießler refers (p. 334) to Oppenheimer “Über den Einfluß des Klimas auf den Menschen” (Berlin, 1867). Vide also E. Huntington’s article on “Work and Weather,” Harper’s Magazine, vol. 130 (January, 1915), pp. 233–44.
[292]. Rep. Brit. Assoc., 1908 (London, 1909), p. 844.
[293]. On the use of alcohol in its relation to the northern climate, cf. also Auguste Matteuzzi, Les Facteurs de L’Évolution des Peuples (Paris, 1900), pp. 329 et seq.
[294]. Some of these are to be discussed in a subsequent paper.
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
- Replaced “sz” with “ß” in German words. The “ß” character was not used in the original.
- Changed “Nachbaren” to “Nachbarn” on p. [30].
- Silently corrected typographical errors.
- Retained anachronistic and non-standard spellings as printed.