After-Effects, 1861–1865.

1861. Bachofen: Das Mutterrecht (Matriarchy). Griesinger: Pathology of Mental Disorders. Schleicher: Grammatik der indogermanischen Sprachen. Manet: Frühstück im Grünen. Dostoieffsky: Raskolnikow. Fontane: Wanderungen durch die Mark. Liberation of Serfs in Russia. 1862. Herbert Spencer: First Principles. Ibsen: The Comedy of Love. Tourgueneff: Fathers and Sons. Construction of Pacific Railway. Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. Bismarck’s Realpolitik (Blood and Iron). 1863. Huxley: Man’s Place in Nature. Lyell: Antiquity of Man. Huggins: Spectra of Fixed Stars and Nebulæ. Broca: Sur le Siège, le Diagnostic et la Nature de l’Aphémie. Pasteur: Theory of Fermentation. Renan: Vie de Jésus. Wundt: Vorlesungen über die Menschen und Tierseele. 1864. Lombroso: Genio e follia. A. Wagner: The Reign of Law in the Apparently Voluntary Actions of Human Beings. Lassalle: Bastiat-Schultze. De Goncourt: Renée Mauperin.

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[1]. The family name, originally pronounced Lumbroso, shows clearly that the family belonged to the Spanish Jews who were expelled from Spain and settled in North Africa. The name is a Spanish adjective in common use, denoting “clear” or “illuminating.”

[2]. Bartolomeo Panizza—in 1812–13 army surgeon attached to the grande armée in Russia; in 1815 professor of anatomy at Pavia—discovered the characteristic of the crocodile to which Brücke gave the name of foramen Panizzæ; widely known as a teratologist and comparative anatomist; in 1856 published his “Osservazioni sperimentali sul nervo ottico,” based upon the method of secondary degeneration of the medullary sheath, subsequently applied by Gudden with such valuable results.

[3]. I have not been able to ascertain precisely to what extent Lombroso was influenced by Quetelet. The writings of this investigator did not reach him directly, but they probably influenced him indirectly by way of von Oettingen’s “Moral Statistik.”

[4]. “Ricerchi sul cretinesimo in Lombardia,” Gazz. Medica Italiana Lombarda, No. 13, 1859.

[5]. Together with Mantegazza, his colleague (as experimental pathologist) in Pavia from 1861 to 1866, Lombroso was the founder of anthropology in Italy. Of anthropology in the modern sense it is possible to speak only since, in the year 1859, Broca founded the Parisian Anthropological Society. Previously the term had denoted, as Kant’s “Anthropology” shows, empirical descriptive psychology. From the first the doctrine of the important varieties of human beings (insanity, cretinism, criminality, genius, degeneration) was for Lombroso a chapter of general anthropology. From the first also he regarded a knowledge of the environment as of the greatest importance for an understanding of the origin of these varieties (vide infra).