THE THEORY OF ENVIRONMENT An Outline of the History of the Idea of Milieu, and its Present Status PART I A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND LITERATURE IN CANDIDACY FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT OF GERMANIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES
Reading edition
BY
ARMIN HAJMAN KOLLER
The Collegiate Press
George Banta Publishing Company
Menasha, Wisconsin
1918
THE THEORY OF ENVIRONMENT
PART I
An Outline of the History of the Idea of Milieu, and its Present Status
BY
ARMIN HAJMAN KOLLER, Ph.D.
Instructor in German
The University of Illinois
“.............................
He fixed thee ’mid this dance
Of plastic circumstance.”
Robert Browning, “Rabbi Ben Ezra.”
The Collegiate Press
GEORGE BANTA PUBLISHING COMPANY
MENASHA, WISCONSIN
1918
Copyright, 1918
By Armin H. Koller
TO
MY PARENTS