Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain; 1835–1910), American humorist and writer, followed scientific and medical developments, and relished exposing questionable practices and ideas. In his youth, he pondered how phrenologists were assessing character, and in 1855 he copied sections of a phrenology book and a skull diagram into a notebook. Later, in London, he had two phrenological examinations by Lorenzo Fowler—one without and the other after identifying himself. Following his “test,” which produced contrasting results, he began to ridicule phrenologists and phrenology in Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, and other works. He underwent at least two more head readings in the United States, and in Eddypus, an unfinished work from 1901 to 1902, he maintained that phrenologists base their insights primarily on how people dress and answer questions. Although now lampooning the craniological tenets of phrenology, Twain never seemed to reject the idea of distinct faculties of mind associated with specialized brain organs.

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马克·吐温（Mark Twain）对命理学的终生迷恋。

美国幽默主义者和作家塞缪尔·兰霍恩·克莱门斯（马克·吐温； 1835年至1910年），跟随科学和医学的发展，并津津乐道地揭示了可疑的做法和思想。在他年轻的时候，他考虑了颅相学家如何评估性格。1855年，他将颅相学书籍的部分内容和头骨图复制到笔记本中。后来，在伦敦，他接受了洛伦佐·福勒（Lorenzo Fowler）进行的两次颅相检查，一次没有，另一次则是在确认自己身份之后。在进行了“测试”（产生了截然不同的结果）之后，他开始嘲笑汤姆·索耶（Tom Sawyer），哈克贝利·费恩（Huckleberry Finn）和其他作品中的颅相学家和颅相学。在美国和埃迪普斯，他至少接受了两次头读检查这是1901年至1902年未完成的作品，他坚持认为颅相学家的见解主要基于人们的着装和回答问题的方式。尽管吐温现在嘲讽了颅相学的颅骨学教义，但吐温似乎从未拒绝过与专门的脑器官相关的不同思维能力的想法。