How To Use Phrenology In A Sentence
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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
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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
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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.
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This looked very much like some of the phrenology and craniometry that was being done in the 19th Century.
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It should be mentioned, however, that this was only a single-blind test, with a subject predisposed to be hostile to phrenology.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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He devoted his life to the species problem but also became a popular authority on many topics, including spiritualism, mesmerism, and phrenology.
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Once a lively ‘science’, phrenology disappeared because what it proposed was incorrect and hence irrelevant.
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In the early nineteenth century, Gall developed the notion of phrenology skull configuration and bumps reflecting underlying brain structure and made the first organized connection between brain and behavior.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
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All his life Whitman believed in the science of phrenology-you know, reading the bumps on the skull.
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He reminds us of Wallace's achievements and pins his downfall on his distracting interest in such fringe fields as mesmerism and phrenology.
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Horace Mann called phrenology “the greatest discovery of the age.”
MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION
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And some courts have taken judicial notice of the irrationality of certain pseudosciences, including phrenology and astrology.
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Centuries ago, the Italian scientist and chronologist Lombroso used phrenology to explain and predict criminal behaviour.
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With the figures of Duchene, Warhol and Sherman as anchors, Sobieszek ranges a near full history of physiognomy, pathognomy and phrenology from Aristotle to Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari.
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[1] The summary of this distinguished lecturer's objections to phrenology is to be found in the Appendix to vol i. of "Lectures on Metaphysics," p. 404, et seq.
A Strange Story — Volume 05
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The latest deadweight dragging us closer to phrenology is "evolutionary psychology," or the science formerly known as sociobiology, which studies the evolutionary roots of human behavior.
Just-so stories from evolutionary psychology: Why kids don’t eat their vegetables
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Another reader (I lost his name, sorry!) has reduced retrophrenology to understandable terms.
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According to the science of phrenology, which was currently all the rage, such a brow hinted at intelligence and broadness of mind.
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He gave his version of organology a new name—phrenology—and took his show on the road, playing to even fuller houses than Gall had, not as a scientist, however, but as an entertainer.
MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION
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He was likewise taken to Mr. Deville, a noted professor of the art called phrenology, who felt his head, carefully measuring all its bumps, and, having learnt Clare's name, informed him that he possessed all the swellings necessary to make verses.
The Life of John Clare
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He liked to display a map - reminiscent of a phrenology chart - showing which areas of the brain are involved in drug use and addiction.
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FW: Pseudosciences like craniology and phrenology in the 18th and 19th century were once used as a basis for scientific racism that dealt with the inability of certain races to have intellect – thus the bizarre depiction of "happy darkies" that the Gone With the Wind group loved so well.
The WritingYA Weblog: Winter Blog Blast Tour, Day Three: M.T. Anderson
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Can't those poor coots see that you don't know two cents about phrenology?
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Forearmed with a knowledge both of phrenology and the tricks of con artists, he performed a simple single-blind reliability test.
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And thus was born phrenology (then called craniology).
Bayblab
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As the prototype for a normalizing physical anthropology, however, phrenology, with its value-laden stereotyping psycho-techniques, introduced new ethical problems.
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Phrenology: Study the shape of the skull as an indication of mental abilities and character traits.
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I spoke of phrenology, he said, not with the object of criticising a system which has its good side, in so far as it tends to complete the series of physiological observations that aim at increasing our knowledge of man; I used the word phrenology because the only fatality that we believe in nowadays is that created by our own instincts.
Mauprat
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phrenology was an antecedent of modern neuroscience
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He finds himself drawn on a journey involving phrenology, the dodgy science of determining mental prowess from bumps on the head, involving a machine called a psychograph.
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Her sister reported that mesmerism and phrenology were also sensations in their north Alabama town while she was away.
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At this point, many no longer considered phrenology a legitimate science, and America was now looking to the most recent European import, the emerging field of psychoanalysis, to explain human behavior.
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Quite independently of his Historical Matrix Model, which includes other conceptual components besides the ones I have highlighted here, Shermer is persuasive in showing how Wallace's personality and the peculiar mix of his "borderland" scientific interests (particularly mesmerism and phrenology) combined to make him vulnerable to a host of other unorthodox viewpoints, such as his ardent campaign against vaccination and his strong commitment to socialist causes.
Darwin and His Doppelgänger
