Pseudo-Science and Society in 19th-Century America

Progressive nineteenth-century Americans believed firmly that human perfection could be achieved with the aid of modern science. To many, the science of that turbulent age appeared to offer bright new answers to life's age-old questions. Such a climate, not surprisingly, fostered the growth of what we now view as "e;pseudo-sciences"e;-disciplines delicately balancing a dubious inductive methodolog...