HIGHBROW AND LOWBROW.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 188, 9 August 1924, Page 7

HIGHBROW AND LOWBROW.

THE FOREHEAD FALLACY. SCIENTIST DESTROTS MYTH. THE CRIMINAL'S MIND. CBy Cable.—Press Association.—Coprrignt.) (Received 11 a.m.) TORONTO, August S. Addressing the section of anthropologists at tue meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Dr. Wingate Todd, of Cleveland (Ohioj, dissipated the popular belief that j persons with high foreheads held the I monopoly of brains. He said that perI sons >\\ ah low receding foreheads were i not to be despised. J This, in the words of a member of the ' audience, was a compliment to a lowbrow ! from a high-brow. Dr. Todd said that I the shape of the head did not indicate the j quality of the intellect, nor do .bumps I indicate whether a person would niake a good parson or a politician. A person with a large head may have ! water on the- brain. i .Mental deficiency was caused by j inability to establish a connection l>oI tween cause and elVect, and explains why some' criminals are beyond reformation. They 'belong to a type which commits crime and forgets. They continue to j commit crime of increasing seriousness. I'nless they are placed under supervision they will continue to commit crime which will end in tho gallows.— ( \ and X.Z. Cable.) i _