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Remember, this was introduced at the
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time of the revolution and then under Napoleon.
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And under the Empire,
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professors even had ranks and wore uniforms.
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So, the practitioners were doctors,
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but there was also a new licensing system,
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and students were encouraged to learn through their senses,
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through seeing, hearing and touching.
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This was sensualism not only in theory,
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but we might call it applied sensualism,
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with a rejection of dogma,
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of theory and of authority simply as authority.