It appears from the pathological material now on hand that this
tendency is greatly weakened in some cases of mental disease. Many
patients have given more than 50 per cent of individual reactions.

It should be mentioned that occasionally a presumably normal subject
has given a record very similar to those obtained from patients, in
respect to both the number and the nature of the individual reactions.
A few subjects who gave peculiar reactions were known to possess
significant eccentricities, and for this reason we excluded their
records from the thousand records which furnished the basis for the
frequency tables; we excluded also a few peculiar records obtained
from subjects of whom nothing was known, on the ground that such
records would serve only to make the tables more cumbersome, without
adding anything to their practical value. The total number of records
thus excluded was seventeen.

It will be apparent to anyone who examines the frequency tables that
the reactions obtained from one thousand persons fall short of
exhausting the normal associational possibilities of these stimulus
words. The tables, however, have been found to be sufficiently
inclusive for the practical purpose which they were intended to
serve. Common reactions, whether given by a sane or an insane subject,
may, in the vast majority of instances, safely be regarded as
normal. As to individual reactions, they cannot all be regarded as
abnormal, but they include nearly all those reactions which are worthy
of special analysis in view of their possible pathological
significance. What can be said further of individual reactions,
whether normal or abnormal, will appear in the second part of this
contribution.