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Part One: Phrenology: The Bastard Science of Racism

Behind the Bastards

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Gaul's Theology

phrenology was one of the forensic sciences. Gaul's science picked up the name for knowledge And almost immediately became known as a haven for con artists and charlatans. He would travel from town to town in Europe offering parents on what type of thing their children should go to school to specialize in based on the shape of their skull. The Catholic Church was an early opponent of Gaul's ideas not because they were concerned about the racism But because they thought that the idea of the human mind having a physical location was horribly offensive and probably inspired by the devil.

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