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of these diseases we find an exaggerated sexual 

 activity, and in the late stages, corresponding 

 with pituitary involution and inactivity, a dis- 

 appearance of the sexual function." 



It is perhaps rather humiliating to find that our 

 well-being, and our proper developments, bodily 

 and mental, are so dependent on the healthy 

 conditions of our lower animal reproductive 

 functions, but the history of our evolutionary past 

 is an integral part of our present make-up, from 

 which there is no getting away. 



Striving, revolting, aspiring bundles of sex, 

 bundles of primitive fighting animalism and of 

 spiritual potentialities, we must therefore learn 

 so to direct and curb these elementals that spiritual 

 and bodily evolution may advance hand in hand. 



Conditions due to abnormal anterior pituitary 

 secretion naturally divide themselves into those 

 of pre-adolescence and post-adolescence. The 

 former are chiefly defects of growth and develop- 

 ment, and the latter chiefly of function. The 

 functional failures of adult life are often the result 

 of unrecognized developmental faults hi youth. 

 In early adults the urge of life and the call for 

 action are so intense that for a time endocrine 

 deficiency is almost obscured, but the poor 

 material in the machine shows itself before long 



