We make a thing we call Nousometer,

Or Phrenological Micrometer;

The grand quintessence of inventions

For measuring the mind’s dimensions.

This shows men’s vices and propensities,

Their aggravations and intensities,

By marks indelible, and plain-

Ly legible as that on Cain.

Nousometers, our hope and trust is,

Will supersede our courts of justice,