phrenology

How To Use phrenology In A Sentence

• Induction, a posteriori, would have brought phrenology to admit, as an innate and primitive principle of human action, a paradoxical something, which we may call perverseness, for want of a more characteristic term. The Imp of the Perverse
• For example, Dr. Mortimer, a man Holmes and Watson befriend and refer to as a fellow man of science, is an expert in phrenology. Archive 2007-07-01
• They stripped naked so that every dimension of their bodies could be measured for "anthropometric" analysis, a kind of whole-body phrenology based on the premise that stock character types could be seen from body proportions. Random($foo)
• This looked very much like some of the phrenology and craniometry that was being done in the 19th Century.
• It should be mentioned, however, that this was only a single-blind test, with a subject predisposed to be hostile to phrenology.
• This is clearly the case with spiritualism or the unsupported assertion that human beings must have had some supernatural help in their evolution but not the case with phrenology, mesmerism, anti-vaccination and radical land reform.
• In Bentham's day, the cutting edge of brain science was phrenology - the idea that you could read someone's character by feeling the contours of his or her skull.
• Gallian system, and who are aware that my discoveries have thoroughly revolutionized as well as enlarged cerebral science, rendering the old term phrenology inadequate to express its present status. Buchanan's Journal of Man, February 1887 Volume 1, Number 1
• A strong background in phrenology would aid the mission, he argued, because “you will not have to wait to learn their [the Chinese people’s] peculiarities.” The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876
• He devoted his life to the species problem but also became a popular authority on many topics, including spiritualism, mesmerism, and phrenology.