The ethnology of the sixth sense : studies and researches into its abuses, perversions, follies, anomalies, and crimes / by Dr. Jacobus X.

  • X, Jacobus
Date:
1899
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Credit: The ethnology of the sixth sense : studies and researches into its abuses, perversions, follies, anomalies, and crimes / by Dr. Jacobus X. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Prejudice squints when ir looks, and lies when it talks. (Duchesse cl*Abrantes.) %o tlie 0TC eui$ex,& o|~ tIdo 9TCeDicctl ty'tc^eASion o tKe Gltij o[- eft. STCo^SX. of. GENTLEMEN, To whom with more pleasure or propriety can I inscribe this volume than to you, who were brave enough, under the battle-fire of bigotry and false virtue, to endorse the scientific importance of my previous work ie The Untrod- den Fields of Anthropology ’’ in the teeth of the Governmen- tal *£ Scribes and Pharisees ” of your good City of St Louis, what time they cried “obscenity ” before the dignity of the naked human body, and saw “ indecency ” in Medical stu- dies that aim only at the alleviation of the sufferings of Humanity. Wishing you God-Speed, I am, Gentlemen, Yours faithfully and obliged (D* JacoGua c\i a