https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/The-Greatest-Discovery-Ever-Communicated-to-Mankind https://booksandideas.net/The-Greatest-Discovery-Ever-Communicated-to-Mankind 2015-03-02T06:30:00Z text/html en Neil Davie Great Britain History Portraits criminology phrenology <p>Although now considered a pseudo-science, phrenology was tremendously successful in its Victorian heyday. Tracing the intellectual and scientific journey of George Combe, the 'science's most prominent promoter in Great Britain, this paper addresses the phrenologists' little-known contribution to the 'social question' debate of the day, and the ambiguities of their social gospel.</p>