Note 290 — II A Sketch of the History of the Idea of Milieu Since the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century

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.