In those days, many intelligent people were won over by the pseudoscience of phrenology.

当年，很多聪明人都被颅相学这一伪科学说服了。

Their books on phrenology sold hundreds of thousands of copies.

他们关于颅相学的书售卖了几十万册。

Even Queen Victoria called on the services of a phrenologist.

甚至维多利亚女王也请了颅相学家。

And from the middle of the nineteenth century, phrenology began to fall out of favor and eventually into total disrepute.

从十九世纪中叶开始，颅相学开始坛，并最终声名狼藉。

Well, it's true there used to be phrenology.

好吧，的确曾经有颅相学。

Phrenology was used to justify slavery, colonialism, and the poor treatment of criminals and people with mental health problems.

颅相学被用来为奴隶制、殖民主义以及恶劣对待罪犯和有精题的人等行为作出辩解。

Eventually, phrenology was dismissed as a cult pseudoscience because it turns out your cranial contours tell us exactly nothing about what's happening inside the brain.

最终，颅相学被驳回作为 崇拜伪科学，因为事实证明你的颅骨轮廓介绍一究竟什么 发生的事情在大脑中。

But while Gall and Spurzheim bathed in the adulation and eventually fell out, by the way, serious scientists started to undermine the claims of phrenology.

但是当加尔和斯珀兹海姆沉浸在崇拜中时，顺便说一句，两人最终闹翻，严肃的科学家们开始反驳颅相学的说法。

She was a subscriber for all the " Health" periodicals and phrenological frauds; and the solemn ignorance they were inflated with was breath to her nostrils.

她是所有“”期刊和颅相学骗局的订户；他们被夸大的庄严的无知是呼吸到她的鼻孔。

By palpating the contours on a person's head, a phrenologist could supposedly detect the size of each of these areas in order to deduce whether a person had artistic leanings say or criminal tendencies.

通过触摸一个人头部的轮廓，据说颅相学家可以检测出每个区域的大小，从而推断出一个人是否有艺术倾向或犯罪倾向。

Siberian colonies became a laboratory of ideas about the " Russian race." Large collections of " exotic" skulls made available by Captain Cook's South Seas voyages were linked to early research in phrenology.

西伯利亚殖民地成为关于“俄罗斯种族”的思想实验室。库克船长的南洋航行提供的大量“异国情调”头骨与颅相学的早期研究有关。