ABSTRACT

With the new basis of thought and procedure that emanated from the evolutionists, there was introduced into scientific method a new instrument for the determining of scientific processes. This instrument is the scientific laboratory. The distinction of the scientific laboratory is its precision of judgement with respect to the data under investigation. The laboratory presumes a basis of observation that rests upon a principle that is phyletic and inherent. In the absence of this phylogenetic basis there is no biological observation because there is lacking the underlying principle of all laboratory procedure. Through the development of S. Freud's thesis introduced into science the possibility of a laboratory method with respect to man's mental processes, psychoanalysis continued to be consistent with its medical tradition of the clinic. The criteria of the objective laboratory of biology reside in a structural basis among the organic elements that is phyletic and continuous.