THE HENRY MARX STORY
This is actually horrifying. Some of the research I did for this was actually saddening and immensely creepy.
The entire time the Cuba War and the First Slave Insurrection was decimating the South, the Union was still building, slowly modernizing and building up an impressive infrastructure. New York City was experiencing a golden age of revival thanks in large part to the Erie Canal. Goodyear Enterprises was quickly taking over the country in many ways, beginning an era known as "The Gilded Age." This Gilded Age was also called the "Second Enlightenment," or "Rebirth of America." It signaled the end finally of thirty years of Yankee history being a complete and utter disaster on virtually every level conceivable. Almost 20 years after the War of 1812, the Republican Union was finally shaking off the dust and getting back to work.
Among the most influential figures of this period was a German Jewish immigrant named Herschel Levy, who fled persecution with his family after the Hep-Hep Riots in Bavaria in 1819. He was a scientist and "free thinker" who greatly admired all things Yankee. He saw the country as needing help after its allies completely abandoned it. Levy grew disgusted with the way Napoleon and the rest of Southern Europe was allowing anti-Jewish sentiment to go virtually unchecked in Bavaria. He came to "view Papism as a mental disorder or disease. For the weak-minded who live in huts." He also preached that "Papism is the opiate of the people." He saw the Catholic Church as just an excuse to keep "lowbrow Mogoloids and Iberians in check." When he arrived in the Union with thousands of other Jews, he wanted to blend in more as an American and so changed his name to Henry Marx. It was under this name he and his son would be famous, or rather infamous. His son Carl was born in 1818, just before the family moved. He would have no memory of Europe and he would be thoroughly American. His sister Louise would be born in 1821 in the Union. In 1823, the entire family converted to American Fundamentalism.
Henry Marx
Henry Marx was 43 when he arrived off the boat in New Jersey in 1820. This, however, didn't stop the middle-aged man and father of two from joining Princeton University in 1821, joining their science department. There he began experiments on human brains with several other students, trying to understand why some people were criminals or ne'erdowells as well as attempting revolutionary studies on electricity. He attempted, in 1822, to revive dead corpses by means of electric-shock, even going so far as to stitch up different animal parts together to see if he could sew a dog's head on a cat's body and revive it, or even a snake's head on a mouse. These experiments, as he wrote in his diary in early 1823, were "inconclusive." Known as "Dr. Marx's Monsters," these stories would inspire Mary Shelley, a young Englishwoman, to pen the story The Modern Prometheus in 1824, which became the first horror novel of all time. One might think such experiments would render Marx a laughing stock, but instead he was lauded for his attempts at cheating death and for also accidentally creating the prototype of a little something called a "lightbulb" with the help of fellow scientist and inventor Samuel Morse, a professor at Benedict Arnold University of Boston.
Professor Samuel Morse
In 1825, Henry Marx began more studies on electricity, publishing his first book Analysis of Electro-Shock on the Human Mind in that same year to much acclaim. In his book, which he dedicated to "All my Friends and Colleagues at Princeton University and Benedict Arnold University of Boston," Marx claimed he was able to cure many "mental deficiencies, problems, or impulses" through the administration of electricity directly through the brain of the "patient." He claimed electro-shock could "cure seizures, headaches, mind fog, memory loss, and homosexuality," and presented 300 pages of scientific drivel to prove such. This drivel was then completely ate up by American scientists who presented him many awards. From that point on, Yankee hospitals were always equipped with "electro-shock chambers" to "treat patients."
In his next book, A Thorough Investigation of Behavioral and Mental Deficiencies, Marx taught that by severing connection's in the brain's prefrontal cortex, many behavioral and mental problems could be "cured," especially if done in coordination with electro-shock therapy (of course!). Marx tested his theory on his first human patient in 1826, a local Princeton homeless man deemed "unfit for living in society" in his current "condition." Marx and Dr. Calvin John Featherston performed the surgery on the unwilling and strapped-down man before a full audience at Benedict Arnold University of Boston's surgical arena, which resulted in:
"The patient, formerly a drunkard Irish retard opium addict of ill repute quit his screaming and protestations and manic actions immediately. His eyes dilated, his mouth shut, and his hands steadied. Instead of trying to assault us as before, the patient was cordial and cooperative, if a little speechless. Dr. Featherston and I have great hopes that this procedure could be used to remedy all manner of mental disorders or calm lunatics. Procedure has a definite chance of inducing a vegetative state, at which point patient could be cared for or simply put down, but this is preferable to filling up the asylums and hospitals of this great country with useless maniacs thrashing about, violent and out of control. We have not tested on a homosexual yet, but we have great faith that this procedure could cure that unfortunate disease among patients resistant to electro-shock. Of course, following up the lobotomy with a further course treatment of electro-shock could double effectiveness."
It should be noted that this brilliant procedure was, essentially, driving an ice pick through the top of a patient's eye-socket with a mallet with no anesthetic. Traveling medicine shows across the Union began to offer the procedure as well, charging 5 dollars to "banish depression and let you be happy to live life once more."
Dr. Marx, Dr. Featherston, and their staff perform a lobotomy in front of a captive audience in New York City
Now, Marx knew how to control mental deficiencies and the like, he wanted to know what caused them. He now went to work on his master plan, something which had been an idea growing in his head--no pun intended--for years. He would see if the so-called "Inferiors of Society" were really inferior. The results of his studies would shape Union history forever.
In 1827, while Virginia and the Confederation of the Carolinas were going to war over Cuba, Dr. Henry Marx published On the Science of Phrenology, or A Study on the Inferiors of Society. In this absolutely revolutionary new book, some 500 pages long and fully illustrated, Marx laid out his doctrine of phrenology, usually called simply Marxism. He claimed his book and experiments proof that skull shape and size, as well as general composition, could be used to determine if someone was to be a criminal or drunkard or mentally defective. He claimed that several Irish skulls he happened to have in his possession showed that their brains, were slightly smaller than the average "Anglo-Saxon-Teutonic brain." Brains, in this book, were also sectioned out in a bizarre jigsaw puzzle fashion, each "brain organ" controlling a different aspect of personality or intelligence. The rather mad scientist also put forward that the Irish skulls were made of a different type of bone and material altogether than those skulls of Superiors which we have analyzed." Chapter 6 of On the Science of Phrenology stated black people's skulls, while slightly different, did not show direct signs of inferiority unless "racially mixed with other peoples. The mulatto brain truly is stunted by this abnormal mating routine." When he got around to studying Spanish and Italian skulls, Marx concluded that they shared very many similarities with Irish ones, and that they all shared similarities with monkey skulls.
"Upon analysis of these Spaniard skulls, which were taken from fallen soldiers in the ongoing war in Mexico, I found the material and specific features and shaping to be almost identical to that of the Papist Irishmen skulls in my earlier studies. This raises the excellent question of whether or not an Italian skull would also share these traits, as Spaniards and Italians share much in common. They did, in fact, match, confirming my theory that the Inferior Man is naturally an Iberian creature originating from the Slavic steppes of Asia, more beast than man, disposed to crime, retardation, homosexuality, drunkenness, immorality, and brute violence. He is a hairy, degenerate being, almost completely out of control in his purest state, who must be tamed and taught to mind his Betters. I also hope to confirm a further hypothesis, upon my acquisition of several skulls of great age from Europe, that the Roman and Latin peoples of antiquity, such as during the time of the Empire, were of different stock altogether from present day Italian people, their once-pure Anglo-Saxon precursor bloodline, which I shall call the Pinnacle Man, having been mongrelized and mongoloidized by the hordes of Slavic and Iberian subhuman steppe tribals. These Inferior peoples also share significant similarities with the skeletal and bone structures of chimpanzees and monkeys, something of which I am unsure of the exact meaning of. In conclusion, this Inferior Man, if left to mingle with the Betters of Society, will mix his degenerate blood with the Anglo-Saxons and dilute the purity of said Anglo-Saxons, mongrelizing this people. However, if proper steps are taken to safeguard the virtue of our civilization, the Pinnacle Man of antiquity could in turn be bred again into a super man, of great strength mentally and physically."
Charles Goodyear was among the first outspoken fans of On the Science of Phrenology, saying of it:
"It is as if Dr. Marx is writing science with lightning, illuminating us all on the sad plight of our race and the terrifying threat caused by mongoloid foreigners to our continued bloodline. I have worked with many Inferiors over the years, starting with my time on the Erie Canal, and it is as if all the thoughts I have had about these lazy, sinful, stupid peoples also were in the mind of Dr. Marx. Truly, a great American and Christian scientist!"
The idea of rebuilding the Anglo-Saxon people back into the "Pinnacle Man" was revolutionary and was extremely popular with AFC adherents. Aaron Burr, the aging Prophet Himself, said:
"I believe God has used Dr. Marx has a tool by which to show us the true path. Surely, this Pinnacle Man he described fits perfectly my visions of a future Grand Republic, united coast to coast, settled by brown haired men with hazel eyes and of magnificent strength. This Pinnacle Man is likely the race of which the Ancient Hebrews and Romans were a part of, including our Savior, Jesus Christ of Nazareth."
Aaron Burr's endorsement sealed the deal, and the AFC began to preach scientific racism from its pulpits. As Edward Everett said in 1830:
"The Inferior must be worked and shown the way of righteousness through the sweat of his brow. Idleness, as many have said, is the devil's plaything, and if left to their own devices the anarchist Iberian Slav will descend into murder, mayhem, and evil. These sinners are hellbound, one and all! Their anchor dragging them to the fiery lake is the pope himself, the King of the Sinners, Chief of the Inferiors. But! God has created these creatures for a reason. They are the Beast of the Field as described in Genesis, created to serve the first Pinnacle Man, Adam. Not to be fornicated with, but rather to tend the Garden of Eden and serve the Pinnacle Man. These people, beasts of the field, know no better, for they have thick skulls and small brains. However, if worked long and hard and shown the light of the Gospel, the Four Books of Manifest Destiny, and the American Christian Work Ethic, as well as if they respect their Betters, these Inferior subhumans can be brought into a greater level of personhood in death. By working the Inferior, we are saving their souls."
On the Science of Phrenology was, needless to say, incredibly unpopular in Europe, where it was burned in huge piles in front of book stores. However, an alarming number of Prussian and Scandinavian citizens began reading the book as a sort of psuedoscience, most not believing it while a certain amount actually did. Other branches of the same method of thought, not quite as radical as Marx, sprung up in Northern Europe, where more strange, yet usually more sane, medical experiments were attempted.
Dr. Marx, in 1830, was offered the position to be over Benedict Arnold University of Boston's Science Department, a position which he accepted, finally leaving his alma matter of Princeton. At BAUB, Marx would reunite with his old friend and now staunch Scientific Marxism supporter, Professor Samuel Morse. Together, they worked again on their old lightbulb idea, slowly perfecting it over the years. The project was slow at first, but eventually Charles Goodyear, patron of the sciences that he was, stepped in with an offer to work for Goodyear Enterprises, which the two men accepted and did on the side of their regular job as tenured professors.
In summary, Henry Marx, an amateur scientist and Jewish immigrant from Bavaria, came to the Union escaping anti-Jewish pogroms, attended Princeton University, and became the founder of Marxism, a scientific doctrine that would wind up fueling human rights abuses, atrocities, genocide and massacres for centuries. But his influence wasn't done. In New York City, a young English immigrant was working at the zoo, constantly studying the apes in his spare time. He was a big fan of On the Science of Phrenology and of Dr. Marx in general. Two decades later, the young man would publish his "absolute scientific proof for Marxism," which another young man named Custer would find "enlightening and life-changing." The young Englishman's name was Charles Darwin...
THE HENRY MARX STORY
THE FATHER OF MODERN PHRENOLOGY
THE FATHER OF MODERN PHRENOLOGY
The entire time the Cuba War and the First Slave Insurrection was decimating the South, the Union was still building, slowly modernizing and building up an impressive infrastructure. New York City was experiencing a golden age of revival thanks in large part to the Erie Canal. Goodyear Enterprises was quickly taking over the country in many ways, beginning an era known as "The Gilded Age." This Gilded Age was also called the "Second Enlightenment," or "Rebirth of America." It signaled the end finally of thirty years of Yankee history being a complete and utter disaster on virtually every level conceivable. Almost 20 years after the War of 1812, the Republican Union was finally shaking off the dust and getting back to work.
Among the most influential figures of this period was a German Jewish immigrant named Herschel Levy, who fled persecution with his family after the Hep-Hep Riots in Bavaria in 1819. He was a scientist and "free thinker" who greatly admired all things Yankee. He saw the country as needing help after its allies completely abandoned it. Levy grew disgusted with the way Napoleon and the rest of Southern Europe was allowing anti-Jewish sentiment to go virtually unchecked in Bavaria. He came to "view Papism as a mental disorder or disease. For the weak-minded who live in huts." He also preached that "Papism is the opiate of the people." He saw the Catholic Church as just an excuse to keep "lowbrow Mogoloids and Iberians in check." When he arrived in the Union with thousands of other Jews, he wanted to blend in more as an American and so changed his name to Henry Marx. It was under this name he and his son would be famous, or rather infamous. His son Carl was born in 1818, just before the family moved. He would have no memory of Europe and he would be thoroughly American. His sister Louise would be born in 1821 in the Union. In 1823, the entire family converted to American Fundamentalism.
Henry Marx
Henry Marx was 43 when he arrived off the boat in New Jersey in 1820. This, however, didn't stop the middle-aged man and father of two from joining Princeton University in 1821, joining their science department. There he began experiments on human brains with several other students, trying to understand why some people were criminals or ne'erdowells as well as attempting revolutionary studies on electricity. He attempted, in 1822, to revive dead corpses by means of electric-shock, even going so far as to stitch up different animal parts together to see if he could sew a dog's head on a cat's body and revive it, or even a snake's head on a mouse. These experiments, as he wrote in his diary in early 1823, were "inconclusive." Known as "Dr. Marx's Monsters," these stories would inspire Mary Shelley, a young Englishwoman, to pen the story The Modern Prometheus in 1824, which became the first horror novel of all time. One might think such experiments would render Marx a laughing stock, but instead he was lauded for his attempts at cheating death and for also accidentally creating the prototype of a little something called a "lightbulb" with the help of fellow scientist and inventor Samuel Morse, a professor at Benedict Arnold University of Boston.
Professor Samuel Morse
In 1825, Henry Marx began more studies on electricity, publishing his first book Analysis of Electro-Shock on the Human Mind in that same year to much acclaim. In his book, which he dedicated to "All my Friends and Colleagues at Princeton University and Benedict Arnold University of Boston," Marx claimed he was able to cure many "mental deficiencies, problems, or impulses" through the administration of electricity directly through the brain of the "patient." He claimed electro-shock could "cure seizures, headaches, mind fog, memory loss, and homosexuality," and presented 300 pages of scientific drivel to prove such. This drivel was then completely ate up by American scientists who presented him many awards. From that point on, Yankee hospitals were always equipped with "electro-shock chambers" to "treat patients."
In his next book, A Thorough Investigation of Behavioral and Mental Deficiencies, Marx taught that by severing connection's in the brain's prefrontal cortex, many behavioral and mental problems could be "cured," especially if done in coordination with electro-shock therapy (of course!). Marx tested his theory on his first human patient in 1826, a local Princeton homeless man deemed "unfit for living in society" in his current "condition." Marx and Dr. Calvin John Featherston performed the surgery on the unwilling and strapped-down man before a full audience at Benedict Arnold University of Boston's surgical arena, which resulted in:
"The patient, formerly a drunkard Irish retard opium addict of ill repute quit his screaming and protestations and manic actions immediately. His eyes dilated, his mouth shut, and his hands steadied. Instead of trying to assault us as before, the patient was cordial and cooperative, if a little speechless. Dr. Featherston and I have great hopes that this procedure could be used to remedy all manner of mental disorders or calm lunatics. Procedure has a definite chance of inducing a vegetative state, at which point patient could be cared for or simply put down, but this is preferable to filling up the asylums and hospitals of this great country with useless maniacs thrashing about, violent and out of control. We have not tested on a homosexual yet, but we have great faith that this procedure could cure that unfortunate disease among patients resistant to electro-shock. Of course, following up the lobotomy with a further course treatment of electro-shock could double effectiveness."
It should be noted that this brilliant procedure was, essentially, driving an ice pick through the top of a patient's eye-socket with a mallet with no anesthetic. Traveling medicine shows across the Union began to offer the procedure as well, charging 5 dollars to "banish depression and let you be happy to live life once more."
Dr. Marx, Dr. Featherston, and their staff perform a lobotomy in front of a captive audience in New York City
Now, Marx knew how to control mental deficiencies and the like, he wanted to know what caused them. He now went to work on his master plan, something which had been an idea growing in his head--no pun intended--for years. He would see if the so-called "Inferiors of Society" were really inferior. The results of his studies would shape Union history forever.
In 1827, while Virginia and the Confederation of the Carolinas were going to war over Cuba, Dr. Henry Marx published On the Science of Phrenology, or A Study on the Inferiors of Society. In this absolutely revolutionary new book, some 500 pages long and fully illustrated, Marx laid out his doctrine of phrenology, usually called simply Marxism. He claimed his book and experiments proof that skull shape and size, as well as general composition, could be used to determine if someone was to be a criminal or drunkard or mentally defective. He claimed that several Irish skulls he happened to have in his possession showed that their brains, were slightly smaller than the average "Anglo-Saxon-Teutonic brain." Brains, in this book, were also sectioned out in a bizarre jigsaw puzzle fashion, each "brain organ" controlling a different aspect of personality or intelligence. The rather mad scientist also put forward that the Irish skulls were made of a different type of bone and material altogether than those skulls of Superiors which we have analyzed." Chapter 6 of On the Science of Phrenology stated black people's skulls, while slightly different, did not show direct signs of inferiority unless "racially mixed with other peoples. The mulatto brain truly is stunted by this abnormal mating routine." When he got around to studying Spanish and Italian skulls, Marx concluded that they shared very many similarities with Irish ones, and that they all shared similarities with monkey skulls.
"Upon analysis of these Spaniard skulls, which were taken from fallen soldiers in the ongoing war in Mexico, I found the material and specific features and shaping to be almost identical to that of the Papist Irishmen skulls in my earlier studies. This raises the excellent question of whether or not an Italian skull would also share these traits, as Spaniards and Italians share much in common. They did, in fact, match, confirming my theory that the Inferior Man is naturally an Iberian creature originating from the Slavic steppes of Asia, more beast than man, disposed to crime, retardation, homosexuality, drunkenness, immorality, and brute violence. He is a hairy, degenerate being, almost completely out of control in his purest state, who must be tamed and taught to mind his Betters. I also hope to confirm a further hypothesis, upon my acquisition of several skulls of great age from Europe, that the Roman and Latin peoples of antiquity, such as during the time of the Empire, were of different stock altogether from present day Italian people, their once-pure Anglo-Saxon precursor bloodline, which I shall call the Pinnacle Man, having been mongrelized and mongoloidized by the hordes of Slavic and Iberian subhuman steppe tribals. These Inferior peoples also share significant similarities with the skeletal and bone structures of chimpanzees and monkeys, something of which I am unsure of the exact meaning of. In conclusion, this Inferior Man, if left to mingle with the Betters of Society, will mix his degenerate blood with the Anglo-Saxons and dilute the purity of said Anglo-Saxons, mongrelizing this people. However, if proper steps are taken to safeguard the virtue of our civilization, the Pinnacle Man of antiquity could in turn be bred again into a super man, of great strength mentally and physically."
Charles Goodyear was among the first outspoken fans of On the Science of Phrenology, saying of it:
"It is as if Dr. Marx is writing science with lightning, illuminating us all on the sad plight of our race and the terrifying threat caused by mongoloid foreigners to our continued bloodline. I have worked with many Inferiors over the years, starting with my time on the Erie Canal, and it is as if all the thoughts I have had about these lazy, sinful, stupid peoples also were in the mind of Dr. Marx. Truly, a great American and Christian scientist!"
The idea of rebuilding the Anglo-Saxon people back into the "Pinnacle Man" was revolutionary and was extremely popular with AFC adherents. Aaron Burr, the aging Prophet Himself, said:
"I believe God has used Dr. Marx has a tool by which to show us the true path. Surely, this Pinnacle Man he described fits perfectly my visions of a future Grand Republic, united coast to coast, settled by brown haired men with hazel eyes and of magnificent strength. This Pinnacle Man is likely the race of which the Ancient Hebrews and Romans were a part of, including our Savior, Jesus Christ of Nazareth."
Aaron Burr's endorsement sealed the deal, and the AFC began to preach scientific racism from its pulpits. As Edward Everett said in 1830:
"The Inferior must be worked and shown the way of righteousness through the sweat of his brow. Idleness, as many have said, is the devil's plaything, and if left to their own devices the anarchist Iberian Slav will descend into murder, mayhem, and evil. These sinners are hellbound, one and all! Their anchor dragging them to the fiery lake is the pope himself, the King of the Sinners, Chief of the Inferiors. But! God has created these creatures for a reason. They are the Beast of the Field as described in Genesis, created to serve the first Pinnacle Man, Adam. Not to be fornicated with, but rather to tend the Garden of Eden and serve the Pinnacle Man. These people, beasts of the field, know no better, for they have thick skulls and small brains. However, if worked long and hard and shown the light of the Gospel, the Four Books of Manifest Destiny, and the American Christian Work Ethic, as well as if they respect their Betters, these Inferior subhumans can be brought into a greater level of personhood in death. By working the Inferior, we are saving their souls."
On the Science of Phrenology was, needless to say, incredibly unpopular in Europe, where it was burned in huge piles in front of book stores. However, an alarming number of Prussian and Scandinavian citizens began reading the book as a sort of psuedoscience, most not believing it while a certain amount actually did. Other branches of the same method of thought, not quite as radical as Marx, sprung up in Northern Europe, where more strange, yet usually more sane, medical experiments were attempted.
Dr. Marx, in 1830, was offered the position to be over Benedict Arnold University of Boston's Science Department, a position which he accepted, finally leaving his alma matter of Princeton. At BAUB, Marx would reunite with his old friend and now staunch Scientific Marxism supporter, Professor Samuel Morse. Together, they worked again on their old lightbulb idea, slowly perfecting it over the years. The project was slow at first, but eventually Charles Goodyear, patron of the sciences that he was, stepped in with an offer to work for Goodyear Enterprises, which the two men accepted and did on the side of their regular job as tenured professors.
In summary, Henry Marx, an amateur scientist and Jewish immigrant from Bavaria, came to the Union escaping anti-Jewish pogroms, attended Princeton University, and became the founder of Marxism, a scientific doctrine that would wind up fueling human rights abuses, atrocities, genocide and massacres for centuries. But his influence wasn't done. In New York City, a young English immigrant was working at the zoo, constantly studying the apes in his spare time. He was a big fan of On the Science of Phrenology and of Dr. Marx in general. Two decades later, the young man would publish his "absolute scientific proof for Marxism," which another young man named Custer would find "enlightening and life-changing." The young Englishman's name was Charles Darwin...
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