XXX HEREDITY AND SELECTION IN SOCIOLOGY 



It has been objected to us that we have not dealt with, the 

 very important subject of the increase in the rate of crime. To 

 this objection we would reply that, if we have omitted to deal 

 with this grave symptom of social pathology, it is not because 

 we in any way underestimate its importance, but simply because, 

 after the pubUcations of the Italian school of criminologists, 

 especially Ferri, Garofalo, and Sighele, there remains Uttle to 

 be said which is either very new or very interesting. Those 

 who are interested in the question of the social aspects of crime 

 cannot do better than consult the works of Ferri and Garofalo ; 

 but this study must be prefaced by that of the monumental 

 work of Lombroso. 



driicken sich Erhaltungs- und Waohstumsbedingungen aus. Alle unsere 

 Erkenntnissorgane und Sinne sind nur entwickelt in Hinsicht auf Erhal- 

 tungs- und Wachstumsbedigungen. Das Vertrauen zur Vemunft und 

 ihren Kategorien, zur Dialektik, also die Wertscliatzung der Logik beweist 

 nur die durch Erfahrung bewiesene Niitzlichheit derselben fiir das Leben, 

 nioht deren Wahrheit." And he speaks of the most fundamental a 'priori 

 notions of humanity as " sehr gut eingeiibte Gewohnheiten des Glaubens, 

 so einverleibt, dass nicht daran glauben, das Geschleoht zu Grunde 

 rich ten wiirde.'' 



