However as Huxley states, truth begins with common sense observations. Plato's Republic wisely divides awareness into opinion and knowledge. Opinion involved sense experience and knowledge evolved from sense experience by means of reasoning. Sense experience is the base and science evolves from this. The two concepts are a whole and need each other.
Sense experience can be somewhat mystical.
I have always felt that skilled members of the healthcare profession reach out with their self , their life force , to touch those that they were caring for. It is my observation after 35 years experience that this caring for the patient enhances the patient's confidence and healing. The preface for this book of the 1860's clearly distinguishes between genralized caring for someone and the specialized knowledge required in the healthcare field. She recognized that in the healthcare field special knowledge will be required. A narrow focus on quantifying the patient in order to generate and acuity score in order to substantiate the need for a certain number of staff has lost sight of another of Florence's observations.