Papers of the Manchester Literary Club (V. 7)
by Manchester Literary Club (9781458838278)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: GEORGE COMBE, THE SOCIAL REFORMER, AND FOUNDER OF THE SYSTEM OF MODERN EDUCATION NOW IN COURSE OF DEVELOPMENT. BY JOHN ANGELL, F.C.S., F.I.C. Read December 6, 1880.] IN these later periods time moves on so swiftly that what formerly would have required twenty decades to accomplish now frequently takes place in less than half a lifetime. A lively consciousness of this fact, and also of another equally patent fact, viz., that the rapid march of events, in these busy times of great mental activity and excitement, quickly pushes out of our too frequently ungrateful memories all knowledge and recognition of our greatest benefactors, unless we are frequently reminded of our great indebtedness to them, has induced me, this evening, to bring before the Manchester Literary Club the life of a great radical, a great educationist, a great social reformer, and a great philosopher. And in bringing before you the life of George Combe, I bring before you the life of the man to whom I believe more than to any other single individual we are indebted, not only for the educational revival of the present generation, but also for the successful attempt he made to remove the discussion of the preeminently important question of education out of the arena of merely polemical discussion and conventionalism, and to establish it on the sound and enduring basis of natural lawand principle. He not only succeeded in doing this, but he also succeeded in establishing a much wider principle in relation to nature and human conduct the principle that lies at the base of all permanent human progress and happiness, viz., " That this world is actually arranged on the principle of favouring virtae and punishing vice, and that it is throughout its constitution framed in perfect adaptation to man as a m...

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