Editing George Combe (section)

==Debate with Hamilton==
Combe began to lecture at Edinburgh in 1822. He published a Manual, ''Elements of Phrenology'', in June 1824. He took private tuition in elocution; contemporaries described him as clever and opinionated. Combe's discussions had an air of confidentiality and theatrical urgency. Converts came in, societies sprang up and controversies began.

A second edition of ''Elements'', 1825, was attacked by [[Francis Jeffrey]] in the ''Edinburgh Review'' of September 1825. Combe replied in a pamphlet and the journal. The phrenologists were attacked again in 1826 and 1827 by [[Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet|Sir William Hamilton]] in addresses to the [[Royal Society of Edinburgh]]. The sharp controversy included challenges to public disputes and mutual charges of misrepresentation, in which Spurzheim took part. The correspondence appeared in the fourth and fifth volumes of the ''Phrenological Journal''.{{sfn |Stephen |1887}}