The constitution of man considered in relation to external objects / [George Combe].

  • Combe, George, 1788-1858.
Date:
1879
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Credit: The constitution of man considered in relation to external objects / [George Combe]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ADVERTISEMENT TO THE NINTH EDITION. George Combe died on the 14th of August 1858, leaving to us the care of his Works. The edition of this treatise which he had last revised for the press was the eighth (post 8vo, 1847); hut the alterations then made were never transferred by him to the “ People’s Edition” (in royal 8vo), which had pre- viously been stereotyped for the second time in 1841, and impressions of which continued to be frequently thrown off till the end of 1858. A few months before his death, he began to prepare the work for a final edition, which he had long been hoping to publish. Unhappily, the only parts of it which he found health and leisure to revise were the Preface and the Introductory Eemarks. These are here printed from his altered copy, with a few verbal corrections which he certainly would have seen to be necessary had he lived to superintend the printing. As to the remainder of the volume, we had to decide between two courses—either to reprint it verbatim, or to make such alterations as the lapse of time and the progress of knowledge must have led himself to bestow upon it, or as were evidently re- quisite to harmonize it with the Introductory Remarks in their modified condition, and with the views propounded in his latest work—“ On the Relation between Science b