156 THE GLANDS REGULATING PERSONALITY 



boulder up a hill, only to see it roll down again, would have to 

 thank his lucky stars for his lighter punishment The future, 

 tomorrow, the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth, or if you will, the 

 public of Supermen, means to all of us what the child means 

 to the madonna. The cynical epicurean careerists and careerist- 

 inas, and the depraved degenerates of a comfort-lusting civiliza- 

 tion may have suffered an absolute atrophy and castration of that 

 instinct. But they are pathologic specimens, and we are not for 

 moment concerned with them. 

 The Freudians have set up a great hullaballoo about creative 

 m sublimations of the sex instinct, or as they would 

 have it, the libido. That is their obsession, the confusion of the 

 sex instinct, the instinct for sex life and satisfaction in the relation 

 of the male to the female, with the maternal instinct. The 

 1 instinct bears the same relation to the maternal, as the 

 breasts of the male do to those of the female, i.e., a functional 

 hermaphrodite trait. The maternal instinct is the instinct to 

 be, provide and care for offspring. 

 The mother expresses the deep craving of protoplasm for im- 

 mortality. What drives her is the instinct of Life to preserve 

 If unto eternity in infinite space and time. That separates 

 it sharply from the temporary needs of the sex instinct. The 

 artist, the man of science or letters, the statesman, craftsman 



of every sort is instigated by the maternal instinct. He 

 creates for his own pleasure, to be sure. But it is in its essence 

 of the bird making its nest. 

 It is necessary, therefore, to distinguish between the sex in- 

 I instinct. For different glands of internal set 

 tion have been found responsible for them. A distinct difference 

 in the quality and amount of the two instiii* 

 in tfafl lame penon. A strong maternal instinct may he l 

 in and again to dominate a woman With but little or no sex 



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chief hormone of the maternal instinct. The interactions of tht 



