Lombroso's Apotheosis of Materialism

Cesare Lombroso · Mystic Verse and Insights Series · 1 page

*A single page built on one sentence*, with a biographical footnote longer than the quotation itself.

The sentence attributed to Cesare Lombroso is that the brain produces thought as the liver secretes bile — presented here as the plainest possible statement of the materialist position, which is why the file calls it an apotheosis rather than an argument. The footnote gives the man's standing so that the claim can be weighed against the authority behind it: Lombroso (1836–1909), the Italian physician and criminologist born in Verona, who after service as an army surgeon became professor of mental diseases at Pavia in 1862, director of an asylum at Pesaro, and then professor at Turin of forensic medicine in 1876, of psychiatry in 1896, and of criminal anthropology in 1906. Several other files in this section — the Hermetic Fire piece and Myer on the Unknown among them — argue against exactly this position, so this page functions as the statement of the case they answer.

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