The picture on Wikipedia's anti intellectualism page is from 1875, if that counts: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nast-intellect.png https://commons.w

The picture on Wikipedia's anti intellectualism page is from 1875, if that counts: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nast-intellect.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nast-intellect.png Obviously the nineteenth century was okay with using intelligent people as the butt of jokes and in negative comparisons.