Monkeys, microcephalous idiots, and the barbarous races of mankind: Darwin's dangerous Victorianism (1).    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Only 39% of Americans Believe in Evolution] Reference

It is not enough that you should know a microcephalous skull when you see it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alarms and Discursions] Reference

Many microcephalous idiots babble words without understanding their meaning, like little children.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX.] Reference

A microcephalous boy was born of healthy parents -- he was their first child -- about four weeks too soon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX.] Reference

A man with a bumpy head may say to me (as a kind of New Year greeting), "Fools have microcephalous skulls," or what not.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alarms and Discursions] Reference

To conclude these fragments, let me add here some observations concerning a case of rare interest, that of the microcephalous child.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX.] Reference

It is only in rare cases that microcephalous children can be observed, while living, for any considerable length of time continuously.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX.] Reference

In this case the microcephalous of four years behaves, as far as the development of will is concerned, like the normal boy of four months.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX.] Reference

On the other hand, the speechless infant certainly furnishes the proof, which is confirmed by some observations on microcephalous persons several years old or of adult age.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX.] Reference

For microcephalous children of some years of age are a substitute for imaginary, because never practicable, vivisectory experiments, concerning the connection of body and mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX.] Reference

Further, she shows a tender sympathy with her microcephalous brother; she takes bread from the table, goes to her brother's bedside and feeds him, as he is not of himself capable of putting food into his mouth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX.] Reference

With microcephalous idiots, who are so degraded that they never learn to speak, one of them is described by Vogt,20 as answering, when asked whether he wished for more food or drink, by inclining or shaking his head.    From Wordnik.com.  [The expression of the emotions in man and animals] Reference

The data we have concerning the behavior of children born, living, without head or without brain, and of microcephalous children, as well as of idiots and cretins more advanced in age, are of great interest, as helping us to a knowledge of the dependence of the first psychical processes upon the development of the brain, especially of the cerebral cortex.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX.] Reference

Even the eyes of microcephalous idiots, who are so degraded that they never learn to speak, brighten slightly when they are pleased. 12 Under extreme laughter the eyes are too much suffused with tears to sparkle; but the moisture squeezed out of the glands during moderate laughter or smiling may aid in giving them lustre; though this must be of altogether subordinate importance, as they become dull from grief, though they are then often moist.    From Wordnik.com.  [The expression of the emotions in man and animals] Reference

Kollmann, who saw this microcephalous subject in September, 1877, writes, among other things, of her ( "Correspondenzblatt der.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX.] Reference

Page 276 microcephalus changed to microcephalous.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX.] Reference