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In our various institutions for the treatment of mentally defective, deranged or criminalistic individuals, there is obvious and urgent need of methods which shall yield precise information concerning the ideational processes; for in large measure human conflict, inefficiency, and failure are due either to the lack of ideas or to their imperfect functioning.The comparative psychologist, interested as he necessarily is, in the genetic or developmental relations of ideational and other mental processes, seeks especially to devise methods which shall supply strictly comparable data concerning the characteristics and genetic relations of the various important mental processes and forms of behavior.It is one of his chief tasks to achieve more complete knowledge and a practical understanding of ideation through the study of its evolution in the race (phylogenesis) and of its development in the individual (ontogenesis).He views the psychological problems of psychiatry and psychopathology in the light of knowledge of mind and behavior which is generally considered irrelevant by the professional psychiatrist or psycho-pathologist.Yet here and there, much to the encouragement of those who believe firmly in the value of the comparative method and of the genetic descriptions of life which it yields, appear evidences that even those whose attention is monopolized by the practical problems of mental deficiency or disease are coming to see that no stage or condition of mental life or behavior can be understood or intelligently dealt with is manuscript was written in 1916.
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