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神健康问题的人等行为作出辩解。

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。

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伪科学说服了。

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，颅相学开始跌下神坛，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。

Anatoms who tried to divine personality traits based on the shape of the head.

试图根据头颅形状来推人格特质的颅相学家。

But phrenology itself remains nothing but nonsense, and in the wrong hands, dangerous nonsense.

但颅相学本身不过胡言，落入错误的人手中，就成了危险的胡言。

And from the middle of the 19th century, phrenology began to fall out of favour and eventually into total disrepute.

从19世纪中叶开始，颅相学逐渐失宠，最终完全名誉扫地。

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下究竟什么 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.

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

There is no evidence to back up phrenology's claims, but some of Gaul's insights have informed neuroscience and our understanding of the mind.

没有证据支持颅相学的主张，但加尔的些见解对神经科学和我们对心灵的理解有所贡献。

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

但加尔和斯普尔茨海姆在享受赞美之词的同时， 最终产生了分歧，而严肃的科学家们开始动摇颅相学的主张。

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.

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

Pray, to what particulars of science do you allude? ' Here our whole party, joining voices, detailed at great length the assumptions of phrenology and the marvels of animomagnetism.

“请问，您指的科学中的哪些具体方面？ ”我们全体成员齐声回应， 详细阐述了颅相学的假设以及动物磁性的奇妙现象。

Little Leo, it appeared, was working his way simultaneously through biology, astrophysics, phrenology, chemical engineering, architecture, Christian science, psychosomatic medicine, marine law, business management, yoga, crystallography, metaphysics, and modern literature.

看起来，小利奥似乎同时在学习生物学、天体物理学、颅相学、化学工程、建筑学、基督教科学、心身医学、海洋法、企业管理、瑜伽、晶体学、形而上学以及现代文学。

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，从而推出个人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。