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Phrenology is an empirical science that measures human intelligence from brain case capacity and shape, though it too is now mostly relegated to the study of archeaological-anthropology, I think because it's not quite so politically incorrect to simply assert our human anscestors were dummies.
Climate Change, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Phrenology, which is _very similar_ to that of the Pseudo-sciences.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 Various
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Phrenology, which is _very similar_ to that of the pseudosciences.
Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Thomas L. Masson 1900
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Phrenology, which is very similar to that of the Pseudo-sciences.
The Professor at the Breakfast-Table Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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Phrenology, which is very similar to that of the Pseudo-sciences.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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"In preparing this volume it has been the aim to meet an existing want, viz. That of a treatise which not only gives the reader a complete view of the system of mental science known as Phrenology, but also exhibits its relation to anatomy and physiology as those sciences are represented to-day by standard authority."
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I only said that is the way _I_ should practise "Phrenology" for a living.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 Various
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The 'Phrenology' is very clever, and amusing; but I do not think it logical or satisfactory.
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I only said that is the way I should practise "Phrenology" for a living.
Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Thomas L. Masson 1900
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The 'Phrenology' is very clever, and amusing; but I do not think it logical or satisfactory.
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Kenyon, Frederic G 1898
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