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GEORGE COMBE. 55
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Manare said to liave been sold at home and abroad , than of any , other volumes , excepting the Bible , Pilgrim ' s Progress , and
Robinson Crusoe . George Combe established a reformation of our educational system ,
the full bearings of which are yet to be developed . In his rules for life physical His health system he "was of and moral ever training will be a is great identical preserver with of that human of
. Christianity . He inculcated the true obligations of marriage , the duties of parent and child ; and so far as related to our human
life he enforced our duty to Gob , to ourselves and our fellow creatures .
We do not concern ourselves with the Combes in their character of hysiologists and metaphysiciansnor in respect of peculiar
religious p opinions they may or may not , have entertained . But they were both virtuous men , free from all theological sectarianism ; and
they never used the press or their just personal influence in any interference with the religious sentiments of others . They wrote for the
living in this world , leaving the future to Divines and our account with our _Makee .
If these two remarkable men were not original thinkers , they were at least the most useful practical philosophers of our age . They
are not to be judged by their earlier writings , afterwards enlarged and perfected , nor by their original extreme views on phrenology
and materialism . They are and ever will be estimated for the good they have done as educators of the people at large . They will live
in death , through their intellectual influence over the present and future generations of man . Infantsadultsand the aged , of all
, , classes , are common debtors to George Combe especially , who popularized the laws which regulate the health of body and mind . Indeed
the sanitary reforms daily progressing in our crowded manufacturing cities , and too slowly making way in our rural villages , may be
largely ascribed to the labors and credit of the two philosophers of Edinburgh . We hope to live to see their statues adorn the Carlton
Hill of Modern Athens . If civic honors were due to Aristotle and _-ZEsculapius they were surely merited by George and Andrew Combe .
But we have almost forgotten our original motive for this notice , in the record of Woman ' s obligations to Mr . George Combe . His
catholic mind comprehended our nature , our relative sexual rights , and our special capacities . He was never " sexal" in his exertions
to raise the standard of human perfection . He recognised no distinction of sexesso far as any exclusive interest in . favor of his own
, sex . " Man born of a woman , " was his text in the fullest sense . In all his volumes he demonstrated the interest men have in raising
the condition and relative station of women . We , in common with menowe him equal obligations . Our physicalmoral , and
intellectual , condition , was alike the object of his atten , tion as that of his own sex . It cannot be questioned that he was one of our earliest
and most courageous advocates . All his views on the domestic
George Combe. 55
GEORGE COMBE . 55
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1858, page 55, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091858/page/55/
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