Read full poem →What laws, customs, wealth, arts, traditions;
What sort of marriage—what costumes—what physiology and phrenology;
What of liberty and slavery among them—what they thought of death and the soul;
Dictionary Entry
The science, now generally discredited, which studies the relationships between a person's character and the morphology (structure) of the skull.
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. phrenology
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Poetry examples for “phrenology”
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