Excerpt from The Criminal
It is now ten years since I wrote this little book, and I am gratified to find that it has had a circulation, both in English and in translations, which I was far from anticipating when I undertook, with some hesitation, to summarise the results and tendencies of a study at that time scarcely even known by name in this country. When I look back I am astonished at the temerity with which I undertook so difficult a task with so slender an equipment of knowledge at first hand, and I am scarcely less surprised to find that notwithstanding the prolific researches and discoveries of recent years there is very little to change in the main propositions which I somewhat tentatively set forth; while many of the practical reforms which I advocated have already been accomplished, and others brought within reach of realisation.
It has been the good fortune, and to some extent the bad fortune, of criminal anthropology that its chief protagonist before the world has been a man whose personal energy, extraordinary wealth of ideas, and marvellous power of opening out new lines of research, at one time led a branch of science to be unduly identified with a personality.
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