to any ideal conception. He possesses only 75-83% cubic inches of brain." In contrast to this he considered white men to be “the crowningproduct of the cosmical forces of nature” claiming that "To him exclusively we owe art in its highest sense." According to Joseph McCabe, he gave "agnostic and strongly worded" Rationalist lectures to the London Sunday Lecture Society: his published efforts in this direction included Natural Phenomena and their Influence on Different Religious Systems (1873); Dogma and Science (1876); and The Spontaneous Dissolution of Ancient Creeds (1876). Notes References Tibor Frank, From Habsburg Agent to Victorian Scholar: G.G. Zerffi 1820-1892. Translated by Christopher Sullivan and Tibor Frank (revised by Geoffry Heller). Boulder, Co. and Highland Lakes, N.J.: Columbia University Press, 2000. . Petőfi Irodalmi Múzeum External links Judith Fai-Podlipnik, 'The Many Faces of a Questionable Man' (H- Net review of Tibor Frank's biography) Joseph McCabe, ZERFFI, George Gustavus, historian' in A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Rationalists (1920) Hungarian Jews Hungarian journalists Burials at Kensal Green Cemetery Hungarian spies Forty-Eighters 1820 births 1892 deaths 19th-century journalists Male journalists 19th-century Hungarian male writers