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BY MRS . LOUDON , This is a work which is calculated to accelerate , in a very remarkable degree , the progress of human improvement . It places its author high in the honourable ranks of those practical philosophers of our present day of better hopes , who have risen with its dawn , to labour upon the hitherto
unexplored road to rational happiness ; and who , with untiring industry , and the holy enthusiasm of self-devoted philanthropy , are nobly clearing away the obstacles of ignorance and prejudice before the footsteps of an advancing world .
Mr * Combes just claims to originality are founded , first , on his having pointed out , in a combined and systematic form , the relation between the laws of nature and the constitution of man ; and , secondly , on his having unfolded the independent operation of the three several codes of natural laws , namely , the Physical , the Organic , and the Moral ; and shown the practical consequences which follow from the fact of the independence of their operation .
The great object of Mr . Combe ' s essay is to exhibit these relations and consequences , with a view to the improvement of education , and the regulation of individual and national conduct . Phrenolo P ^ rv bein gs according to the well-known oninione of hrenology beingaccording to the well-known opinions of
, Mr . Combe , the clearest and most complete theory of mind , " is assumed by him as the basis of his essay . But the practical value of the views he unfolds does not depend on phrenology ; their general soundness comes home to the understanding of every thinking reader , whether he have ever studied phrenology or not .
Mr . Combe ' s valuable exposition , therefore , of the most effectual means of habitually giving to the moral sentiments and intellect their legitimate supremacy over the lower propensities , and of the necessity for so doing which exists in the constitution of man , and of external nature , if men would
enjoy health , safety , andhappiiiess , is equally important , whether we assign to those sentiments , that intellect , and those propensities , certain determinate portions of the brain , or content ourselves with the vaguer knowledge derived from consciousness , that such propensities , sentiments , and
intellectual powers do exist somewhere , holding an intimate connexion with our being and our happiness ; and that , according to the tenor of life pursued , we become the free and happy companions of the moral and intellectual portion , or the utterly degraded slaves of the animal portion of our own
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REMARKS ON "THE CONSTITUTION OF MAN CONSIDERED IN RELATION TO EXTERNAL OBJECTS . BY GEORGE COMBE . "
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1836, page 153, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2655/page/25/
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