178 THE GLANDS REGULATING PERSONALITY 



obtainable of thirty-four winners of the Congressional Medal of 

 Honor for extraordinary bravery in the War with Germany. Of 

 twenty-three exhibited the somatic criteria or hormonic 

 signs of the ante-pituitary type. A prerequisite for adequate 

 ante-pituitary function is a normal secretion of the interstitial 

 cells of the reproductive glands. Cowardice is said to be a fea- 

 ture of eunuchs. 



The Pituitary and Instinct 



We have seen that, more than any other gland or tissue of the 

 body, the post-pituitary governs the maternal-sexual instincts 

 and their sublimations, the social and creative instincts. A great 

 deal of evidence is in our possession concerning the disturbances 

 of emotion accompanying disturbances of this gland, and con- 

 trollable by its control. It might be said to energize deeply the 

 tender emotions, and instead of saying soft-hearted we should 

 say much-pituitarized. For all the basic sentiments (as opposed 

 to the intellectualized self-protective sentimentalism), tender- 

 heartedness, sympathy and suggestibility are interlocked with 

 its functions. Its secretion must act upon the great basal ganglia, 

 at the base of the brain, which contain the nerve cells and fibres 

 that are the centers of emotional control and co-ordination. 



The a nte-p ituitary has 1>< ui depicted as the gland of intcl- 

 lity (to use that term for lack of better). By intellectu- 

 ality we mean the capacity of the mind to control its environ- 

 ment by concepts and abstract ideas. The frontal lobes of the 

 brain 'nil offices for higher thought. Their cells are 



the most complex, have the most numerous branches and asso- 

 II fibres. They store the fruits of abstract thinking, mathe- 

 matics, for example. The anterior pituitary is in tl 



OO and contact with them. Its secretion is tonic to them. 



Now I forerunner of intellectual 



let of curiosity, with its emotion of wonder, and if 

 proesion jg the various constructive and acquisitr 



Studies of intellectual men, and of those with 



curiosity and a construct ive-acqu: od pi* to be 



ante- 1 



of ante-pituitary extract to some defectives increases intellectual 



;ty and self-control. The future of intell: xpect 



ns of the 



