Note E1 — Chapter I · THE IDEAL SCHOOL.

“And the attempt to convey scientific conceptions without the appeal to observation, which can alone give such conceptions firmness and reality, appears to me to be in direct antagonism to the fundamental principles of scientific education.”—“Physiography,” [Preface], p. vii. By T. H. Huxley, F.R.S. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1878.

This theory is the antithesis of that of Plato, namely; “that the simplest and purest way of examining things, is to pursue every particular by thought alone, without offering to support our meditation by seeing or backing our reasonings by any other corporal sense.”—Plato’s “Divine Dialogues,” p. 180. London: S. Cornish & Co., 1839.