Popular Science Monthly/Volume 47/August 1895/The Nervous
System, and its Relation to Education |←Argon||Popular Science
Monthly Volume 47 August 1895 (1895) The Nervous System, and its
Relation to Education By John Ferguson By JOHN FERGUSON, M. A.,
M. D., Ph. D., JOHN LOCKE, the physician and philosopher, long
ago said that all our knowledge came from experience. Throughout
his Treatise on the Human Understanding he develops this view of
the acquisition of knowledge. This was followed by the writings
of David Hume, the Scottish historian and metaphysician, who
held that we knew nothing of objects in themselves, but only
through their qualities; or, in other words, that we know of
nothing but ideas. This was in turn followed by Immanuel Kant's
Critique of Pure Reason, who took the ground that, though all
our knowledge did not come from experience (as taught by Locke),
yet it all came by experience. He held firmly to the ground that
we had intuitions, or an a priori knowledge. It was this
intuitive power that