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From Pat Deveney's database:
Phrenological Era, The. Organ of the |
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| Phrenological Era V9 1913 | |
| Phrenological Era V10 1914 | |
| Phrenological Era V21 N10 Dec 1925 | |
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The Phrenological Era, published between 1913 and 1925, is late practical phrenology — the head-reading trade persisting well into the twentieth century, decades after the science had lost any standing it once had. Its core content is the familiar one: the cerebral organs and the faculties, the examination and the chart, and the Fowler name that had been the trade's publisher since the 1830s. What is striking about the magazine is the company that core now keeps. New Thought and mental science are named outright and often, the silence and demonstration appear as practices, and success is the magazine's most frequent single word. Diet, hygiene and breathing exercises run alongside, and so does a little astrology. The picture is of a practice that survived not as a science but as a service: character read from the head, sold as vocational guidance and self-improvement, in a marketplace it now shared with mind-cure and the horoscope. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description. |
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| Phrenology and Physiognomy |
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