 | Henry Thomas Buckle - Civilization - 1857 - 882 pages
...no one thought of doing before the eighteenth century. or prevented. But now, how stands the fact 1 The fact is, that murder is committed with as much...circumstances, as do the movements of the tides, and the rotations of the seasons. M. Quetelet, who has spent his life in collecting and methodizing the statistics... | |
 | WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH - 1858 - 516 pages
...one which, of all offences, might well be supposed one of the most arbitrary and irregular: whereas the fact is, that murder is committed with as much...movements of the tides, and the rotation of the seasons. " We know from experience that every year there not only take place nearly the same number of murders,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1858 - 516 pages
...one which, of all offences, might well be supposed one of the most arbitrary and irregular: whereas the fact is, that murder is committed with as much...movements of the tides, and the rotation of the seasons. " We know from experience that every year there not only take place nearly the same number of murders,... | |
 | 1858 - 456 pages
...which mental phenomena succeed each other, murder, one of the most arbitrary and irregular of crimes, is committed with as much regularity, and bears as...circumstances, as do the movements of the tides and the rotations of the seasons." The great authority for this statement, and for the theory he derives from... | |
 | 1858 - 572 pages
...notorious, he adds, that in point of frequency " they are committed with as much regularity, and bear as uniform a relation to certain known circumstances, as do the movements of the tides and the rotations of the seasons." In London about two hundred and forty persons every year make way with themselves,... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - England - 1858 - 894 pages
...century. I ' -' RESOURCES FOR INVESTIGATING HISTORY. 23 or prevented. But now, how stands the fact \ The fact is, that murder is committed with as much regularity. and hears as uniform a relation to certain known circumstances, as do the movements of the tides, and the... | |
 | 1859 - 554 pages
...proved that about the same number of murders and suicides are committed yearly over the world, and bear as uniform a relation to certain known circumstances, as do the movements of the tides or the rotation of the earth. This same uniformity of mental and moral phenomena will explain the vagaries... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - France - 1857 - 886 pages
...no one thought of doing before the eighteenth century. or prevented. But now, how stands the fact ? The fact is, that murder is committed with as much...circumstances, as do the movements of the tides, and the rotations of the seasons. M. Quetelet, who has spent his life in collecting and methodizing the statistics... | |
 | William Gresley - Apologetics - 1861 - 424 pages
...prove from statistics that there is a constant uniformity in the amount of crime. " Murder," he says, " is committed with as much regularity, and bears as...relation to certain known circumstances, as do the movement of the tides and the rotation of the seasons." Quotingfrom M.Quetelet,he says: — "In everything... | |
 | English periodicals - 1863 - 532 pages
...upon the amount of crime that must needs be committed. " Murder," he elsewhere says, " is com" mitted with as much regularity, and " bears as uniform a...relation to certain " known circumstances, as do the move" ments of the tides and the relations of "the seasons." "The uniform repro" ductionof crime is... | |
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The fact is, that murder is committed with as much regularity, and bears as uniform a relation to certain known circumstances, as do the movements of the tides, and the rotations of the seasons. 
