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Phrenology as an ego-booster for Caucasians
12017-03-24T14:23:02-07:00Sophia Seiberthe2a02a11e04e0c4ec966558f4cf01bfcc2ffeb82159111Example of the ego-boosting measuring your skull could provide to white men.plain2017-03-24T14:23:02-07:00Sophia Seiberthe2a02a11e04e0c4ec966558f4cf01bfcc2ffeb82
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12017-03-24T23:04:11-07:00The Combe Brothers and the Fowler Brothers2plain2017-03-24T23:06:17-07:00The Combe Brothers (early 19th century Sclottland) and the Fowler Brothers (late 19th America)
Those thinkers and physiologists who wrote of and studied Phrenology after Gall took it very seriously. For white-European philosophers and physiologists, it was a reminder that the superiority of the white man can be physically accounted for via measurements of their Caucasian skull. Their gene-given intelligence, physical capacities, and strong moral values are now backed by science, and so scientists like George Combe and his brother and the Fowler Brothers took flight with enthusiasm to spread these ideas.
