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54 GEORGE COMBE,
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Tlie Editors of tlie English Woman ' s Journal would ill discharge a duty to themselves and to their intelligent readers , if they did
not notice , however briefly and insufficiently , the irreparable loss of a great social reformer , a kind encourager of their own secondary
labors , and a public man to whom the female sex in particular , owes a large debt of gratitude .
It would be invidious to institute a comparison of the relative powers of mind and usefulness of the two remarkable brothers ,
George and Andrew Combe . They were " born of themselves , " two of a family of seventeen childrensons of humble parents in
, the vicinity of Edinburgh . Both were honorable examples of the sterling intellect of their countrymen ; of that industry , perseverance ,
and moral force , which peculiarly characterise the Scottish nation , and which lant Scotchmenand Scotchwomenthroughout the vast
emerged colonial world from p of the the juvenile British , emp state ire of . his George northern , the , elder chry brother salisif , first we
, may so import that term of naturalists into social entomology . His own escape from the swaddling clothes of a puritanical and
defective education is instructively narrated in a sensible and affectionate biography of his brother Andrew . Emancipation
from pedagogue tuition , and many ignorances and prejudices , was a less difficult task for Andrew—George generously procuring
, for his younger brother , a superior early education to that afforded himself ; and of which similar fraternal aid , John and
William Hunter were noble examples . The two brothers , far apart in yearshad twin minds . The Siamese youths were not
, more united in body , than the two Combes in the unity of their common intellects . They walked the same paths in life , to the same
ends . Both worked with common instruments in the same calling , using them onlin a different mode . Andrew Combe in his Principles
of Physiology y treated on principles ; but George Combe applied his mind to practice as well as to principle . It was the distinction of
the two men , as in Newton and Watt . The elder laborer also enjoyed a longer life and better health than the younger . George Combe
devoting his working power to more practical purposes , his books and lectures were therefore of more popular and extensive utility .
He took a larger range in his observation of human nature _,, treating man from his infancy to old age . Probably experience
of his own home and deficient early culture , of the cramp and croup of a juvenile mind , originated his interest in the science
of physical and mental education . AH Mr . Combe _' s publications more or less , as applying to every
stage of human existence , are invaluable . Plis two greatest and lasting works however , are his volumes on the Constitution , Moral
Philosophy , and Duties of Man . The boundless circulation of his writingstranslated into many languagesand penetrating every
, , civilized part of the world , is an undeniable proof of their popularity
and utility . More copies of his great work on the Constitution of
54 George Combe,
54 GEORGE COMBE ,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1858, page 54, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091858/page/54/
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