Cesare Lombroso, a modern man of science

Name: Cesare Lombroso, a modern man of science
Author: Kurella, Hans

Kurella, Hans

Criminal anthropology; Lombroso, Cesare, 1835-1909

and the agrarian problem, 127
   and “protection,” 127
   and decentralization of government, 127
   and labour bureaus, 128
   views on punishment in general, and on capital punishment in
      particular, 128
   advocates artificial selection, 128
   and eugenics, 128
   on pellagra, 129
   on races of Southern Italy, 129
   significance of criminal anthropology, 130–138
   on criminal law and its enforcement, 131
   hylozoist ideas, 133
   and positive science, 134
   his respect for facts, 134
   his hunger for material, 134
   insufficient verification of facts by, 135
   occasional credulity of, 135
   spiritualistic experiences, 135
   his conception of anthropology, 135, 136
   his preference for observing _states_ rather than processes, 135
   and the experimental method, 135, 136
   and Fechner’s psycho-physics, 137
   often misunderstood by German biologists and psychiatrists, 137
   and the notion of uniformity, 137
   and positivism, 138
   and determinism, 138
   and social reactivity, 138
   and responsibility, 138
   and apportionment of punishment, 138
   “L’ uomo delinquente,” 140
   and criminal jurisprudence, 139–149
   and “School of Positive Criminology,” 140
   on punishment, 140, 145
   and Ferri, 140
   and Garofalo, 141
   and Kraepelin, 141
   and the science of law, 144
   a utilitarian, 146
   and the Congress for Criminal
   Anthropology in 1906, 147, 148, 157
   pessimism, tendency to, in old age, 148
   mystical tendency, 148
   an optimist in the field of social reform, 148
   as leader of Italian political radicalism, 149
   and Marxist Socialism, 124 _et seq._, 149
   freedom from opportunism, 149
   opposed to compromise, 149
   the pellagra controversy, 149–157
   proscribed for political reasons in 1898, 153
   boycotted by the well-to-do, 154
   “Cause and Prevention” the keynote of his life-work, 154
   as experimental pathologist, 155
   and agrarian reform, 156, 157
   his character, 157
   as “an enemy of the people,” 154, 157
   on “Cause and Prevention,” 158
   on the influence of environment, 159, 160
   “Causes and Prevention of Crime,” 160
   his biological determinism, 161, 162
   “The Man of Genius,” 162, 163
   “Genius and Degeneration,” 162
   “Insanity of Cardanus,” 162
   life-work of, 164
   his genius and personality, 164–166
   a member of the Jewish aristocracy, 164, 165
   “the slave of facts,” 165
   his ready grasp of the essential, 166
   contributions to Italian culture, 166
   spiritualistic researches, 167–176
   and Eusapia Palladino, 169, 172, 175, 176
   effect on his character of the hostile reception of his theories
      regarding the etiology of pellagra, 172, 173
   “Studi sull’ ipnotismo e sulla credulità,” 173, 174
   on the material nature of the will, 174
   on muscle-reading, 174
   on thought-transference, 174
   on misoneism as a hindrance to the acceptance of new discoveries, 175
   “Ricerche sui fenomeni ipnotisi e spiritici” (a posthumous work), 176

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Cesare Lombroso, a modern man of science

Kurella, Hans

Criminal anthropology; Lombroso, Cesare, 1835-1909

and the agrarian problem, 127
   and “protection,” 127
   and decentralization of government, 127
   and labour bureaus, 128
   views on punishment in general, and on capital punishment in
      particular, 128
   advocates artificial selection, 128
   and eugenics, 128
   on pellagra, 129
   on races of Southern Italy, 129
   significance of criminal anthropology, 130–138
   on criminal law and its enforcement, 131
   hylozoist ideas, 133
   and positive science, 134
   his respect for facts, 134
   his hunger for material, 134
   insufficient verification of facts by, 135
   occasional credulity of, 135
   spiritualistic experiences, 135
   his conception of anthropology, 135, 136
   his preference for observing _states_ rather than processes, 135
   and the experimental method, 135, 136
   and Fechner’s psycho-physics, 137
   often misunderstood by German biologists and psychiatrists, 137
   and the notion of uniformity, 137
   and positivism, 138
   and determinism, 138
   and social reactivity, 138
   and responsibility, 138
   and apportionment of punishment, 138
   “L’ uomo delinquente,” 140
   and criminal jurisprudence, 139–149
   and “School of Positive Criminology,” 140
   on punishment, 140, 145
   and Ferri, 140
   and Garofalo, 141
   and Kraepelin, 141
   and the science of law, 144
   a utilitarian, 146
   and the Congress for Criminal
   Anthropology in 1906, 147, 148, 157
   pessimism, tendency to, in old age, 148
   mystical tendency, 148
   an optimist in the field of social reform, 148
   as leader of Italian political radicalism, 149
   and Marxist Socialism, 124 _et seq._, 149
   freedom from opportunism, 149
   opposed to compromise, 149
   the pellagra controversy, 149–157
   proscribed for political reasons in 1898, 153
   boycotted by the well-to-do, 154
   “Cause and Prevention” the keynote of his life-work, 154
   as experimental pathologist, 155
   and agrarian reform, 156, 157
   his character, 157
   as “an enemy of the people,” 154, 157
   on “Cause and Prevention,” 158
   on the influence of environment, 159, 160
   “Causes and Prevention of Crime,” 160
   his biological determinism, 161, 162
   “The Man of Genius,” 162, 163
   “Genius and Degeneration,” 162
   “Insanity of Cardanus,” 162
   life-work of, 164
   his genius and personality, 164–166
   a member of the Jewish aristocracy, 164, 165
   “the slave of facts,” 165
   his ready grasp of the essential, 166
   contributions to Italian culture, 166
   spiritualistic researches, 167–176
   and Eusapia Palladino, 169, 172, 175, 176
   effect on his character of the hostile reception of his theories
      regarding the etiology of pellagra, 172, 173
   “Studi sull’ ipnotismo e sulla credulità,” 173, 174
   on the material nature of the will, 174
   on muscle-reading, 174
   on thought-transference, 174
   on misoneism as a hindrance to the acceptance of new discoveries, 175
   “Ricerche sui fenomeni ipnotisi e spiritici” (a posthumous work), 176

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