Note 14 — Chapter V · THE BIO-SOCIOLOGISTS.
Henry P. (Henry Pomeroy) Horton translation
“And this declassing has been most abundantly provided for by our present economic system. It has unshackled egoism without setting any bounds to it. It reaps what it sows. In the proletariat it has created the very medium in which the microbe of crime flourishes. Next to the wealth of individuals lies the misery of the masses. Do we still wonder, then, that the criminal-statistician laments an increasing number of cases. Every society has the criminals that it deserves.”14