Excerpt from The Education of the Central Nervous System: A Study of Foundations, Especially of Sensory and Motor Training It has been known for some time that the higher processes of thought are dependent on modifications in brain cells, and that the highest intellectual superstructure can be no firmer than the sensory foundation, but this knowledge has not been properly applied in training these cells. Practical application of truths lags far behind a theoretical knowledge of them. The principal object of this book is to prescribe for our complex central nervous systems at the proper time the special kinds of exercise, sensory, motor, and ideational, demanded for full development. A person who has only one or even two senses properly trained is at best a pitiful fraction of a human being. The writer has endeavoured to present herewith some facts which every parent and teacher must know and apply in order to secure the fuller development of children at a critical time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.