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
• And thus was born phrenology (then called craniology). Bayblab
• Another reader (I lost his name, sorry!) has reduced retrophrenology to understandable terms.
• According to the science of phrenology, which was currently all the rage, such a brow hinted at intelligence and broadness of mind.
• 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
• 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
• He liked to display a map - reminiscent of a phrenology chart - showing which areas of the brain are involved in drug use and addiction.
• 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
• Can't those poor coots see that you don't know two cents about phrenology?
• Forearmed with a knowledge both of phrenology and the tricks of con artists, he performed a simple single-blind reliability test.