By dint of scientific thumps
Made famous phrenologic bumps,
And always found the effect was greater
Than when such bumps were made by nature.
Developements, thus manufactured,
Caused many a thick skull to be fractured
But pity well deserves defiance
When e’er she thwarts the march of science.
Thus Rousseau, Voltaire, Paine, and others,
Our revolutionizing brothers,