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WE know men better when we have seen them in the flesh, even if we have no speech with them. A knowledge of their homes fills out our mental picture of them. Darwin becomes more alive to us when we have been round his home at Down. There have always been a few who cherish the belief that the skulls of our famous dead, the homes in which their brains lived, and the bony screens on which their living visages were spread, can speak with a precision and with an intimacy beyond even the efforts of the best artist. For the human skull has a language of its own; one which is hard to decipher. After centuries of endeavour we can construe only its simpler hieroglyphics; yet we do continue to improve, and our progress justifies the belief that the day will arrive when a rational crariiology will become the handmaid of biography. This is the belief of Prof. Karl Pearson; in a monograph he has published on “the skull of Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland,” he has written thus:
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KEITH, A. The Skull and Ancestry of Robert the Bruce. Nature 115, 303–304 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115303a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/115303a0