by the influences of the physical and social 

 environment. All anthropological factors, 

 physical and social, always co-operate together 

 to determine offences, the lightest as well as 

 the most serious as they do in all other 

 human acts. What varies for every delinquent 

 and every offence is the decisive intensity of 

 each order of factors.* 



For example, if it is a question of an assas- 

 sination, committed through jealousy or some 

 hallucination, the anthropological factor is 

 the most important, although some attention 

 cannot but be paid to the physical and social 

 environment. But if it is a question of a 

 crime against poverty, or even against persons, 

 committed by a crowd in revolt, or from 

 drunkenness, etc., it is the social environment 

 that becomes the preponderant factor, although 

 one cannot deny the influence of physical 

 environment and of the anthropological factor. 



The same reasoning can be repeated in 

 order to make a complete examination into 

 the objection raised to socialism in the name 



* Enrico Ferri, Criminal Sociology (English trans- 

 lation), 1895. A recent work has just confirmed our 

 inductions in a positive manner : Forsanari di Verce, 

 Sulla criminalitd e le vicende economiche d' Italia dal 

 1873 <*l l8 9 (Turin), Library of Juridical Anthropology, 

 1894. The preface, written by M. Lombroso, ends with 

 these words : " We do not wish by this to misappreciate 

 the truth of the Socialist movement, which is destined 

 to change the current of modern history in Europe, and 

 which claims ad majorem gloriam of its conclusions that 

 all crime depends on economic influence : we share this 

 doctrine without wishing or being able to follow its mis- 

 takes : however enthusiastic we may be, we will never 

 renounce the tenth in its favour. We leave this useless 

 servility to the classic and orthodox authors." 



