Orson Squires Fowler suggested that people use phrenological principles in seeking a mate: I beseech you, that you choose a companion having large moral organs, so that your own may be continually and agreeably excited and never outraged. To woman this principle applies with double force: first, because she is much more under the power, and subject to the caprice of her husband than he is to hers. . . . and secondly, woman is more social, affectionate, and domestic than man; that is, she enjoys a good husband, and suffers from a bad one, more than it is possible for man to enjoy a good wife, or suffer from a bad one. The reader hardly requires to be told that a predominance of the moral sentiments is indicated by a high head, and one that is long, especially on the top. . . . Do not...