Physiognomy

I began reading through Physiognomy Illustrated by Joseph Simms (1889) on Google Books. I was very disappointed that despite the entertaining illustrations, this book seems very morally bankrupt and silly. Compared to Fowler's book, this book is extremely racist, sexist and Euro-centric. All other races are 'proven' to be worse than Europeans, the lower classes considered criminals by nature, and women only worthwhile humans if they are docile and friendly. In addition, there is a lot of silly information, such as people with large noses being good at smelling things, and people who are gluttonous to have double chins. He also tries to prove points by giving animal examples, sometimes ones that seem very strange, such as crows having 'high suspiciousness' and owls having very small. (Aren't owls as suspicious as any bird?)
As I continued on in the book, I came across increasingly ridiculous parts, such as 'dog headed' people of the world, and that people in Zanzibar have noses that zig zag shaped. I can't imagine that people were still thinking ridiculous things like this in 1889, so I'm not sure what to think about this book.