Thick as Thieves
Anon
Genre: | News-Commentary, Drollery |
Subjects: | Crime, Phrenology, Psychology |
Argues that 'Thieves, according to Phrenology, should have the organ of adhesiveness as well as that of acquisitiveness in excess, since they are as strongly disposed to stick together as their fingers are to other men's goods'. | |
© Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Project, Universities of Leeds and Sheffield, 2005 - 2020
Printed from Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical: An Electronic Index, v. 4.0, The Digital Humanities Institute <http://www.sciper.org> [accessed ]