Item #54995 What should secular education embrace? Second edition, corrected and enlarged. William Combe.

What should secular education embrace? Second edition, corrected and enlarged

Edinbuirgh: Maclachlan, Stewart, & Co.; London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co.; Dublin: James M'Glashan, 1848. 8vo, pp. 36; removed from binding; inscribed in ink by Combe on the title to the American physician and phrenologist, Andrew Boardman; with: Notes on the New Reformation in Germany, and on National Education, and the Common Schools of Massachusetts, by George Combe, Edinburgh 1845, pp. 37, [1]; inscribed at the top "Rec'd. from the auth[or], the last 2 letters trimmed; with: First Annual Report of the Williams Secular School, by George Combe and James Simpson, Edinburgh 1850, pp. 20; inscribed at the top but the inscription trimmed: "from Robert Cox, Esq."; with: On the Introduction of Religion into Common Schools [drop title], by Andrew Combe, Edinburgh, [1850], pp. 8; with: Second Annual Report of the Williams Secular School, by George Combe and James Simpson, Edinburgh, 1851, pp. 38; inscribed at the top "from Robert Cox, Esq."; with: Report of the Annual Examinations of Mr. Williams' Secular School... Edinburgh 1851, pp. 15, [1]; inscribed at the top "from Robert Cox, Esq."; George Combe (1788-1858) was a Scottish phrenologist and was the founder of the Edinburgh Phrenological Society in 1820. The Williams Secular School was founded for the purpose "of affording to the children of the working-classes of Edinburgh a useful secular education." Robert Cox (1810-1872) was also a phrenologist, as well as being George Combe's nephew. Item #54995

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