This paper will emphasize that phrenologists and anti-phrenologists adopted similar or even identical parameters for studying the brains of eminent persons.
To be sure, the reader discovers useful things about the papers of eminent scientists, less perhaps about the more representative intellectuals, and scientific associations.
Traditional social groups, keen to entertain lesser visiting luminaries, were politely indifferent towards the eminent physicist.
They transformed the candidate into a public person and thereby proved him eminent and influential.
A legal regime of this kind could, indeed, make it harder for people to claim identity-constitutive interests in properties potentially subject to eminent domain.
They will therefore have good reason to object to the use of the eminent domain power, and they should.
But it will not secure the land against all uses of the eminent domain power.
No doubt there are public purposes for which the state can exercise its power of eminent domain.
