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| Description: Edward Bellamy, author of the utopian novel Looking Backward (1888) Bellamy’s socialism worried many. The Household Encyclopedia (1892) included this photograph of Bellamy in a section on phrenology, the “science” of ascertaining a person’s character and intellectual traits from the shape of his or her cranium. Referring to Bellamy’s, it concluded, “Large perceptive faculties; defective reasoning powers.”
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