192 THE GLANDS REGULATING PERSONALITY 



adrenocentrics DM up the content of the adrenals as rapidly M 



te tonsillitis, which in an- 

 type of individual would have been combatted continuously 

 by the adrenals and so passed by mere sore throat, pre- 



high temperature, and the brain disturbance 

 ibed by the medical officer as exhaustion-psychosis, with 

 again a tendency to violence. In short, the history of his ad- 

 ire is the history of his adrenals under stress and strain. It 

 illustrates the mechanism of a typical endocrine neurosis. 



The Unconscious and the Viscera 



In the chapter on the glands of internal secretion as an inter- 

 locking directorate, certain generalities were stated as the laws 

 of the government of the organism's life by them in association 

 with the vegetative apparatus. It was put forward as a funda- 

 mental revision of the theory, hitherto accepted, of the limita- 

 tion of mind to the brain cells. We think and feel not alone with 

 the brain, but with our muscles, our viscera, our vegetative nerves, 

 and last but not least our endocrine organs. In short, we think 

 and feel with each and every part of ourselves. 



Among these pristine factors determining the content of con- 

 sciousness, the endocrines are most important, because they alone 

 to start with, of all the other factors, are different in each and 

 every individual. They are what render him unique at birth, 

 even though he looks the counterpart of millions of other babies 

 born at the same time. They constitute his inner destiny. A 

 he grows, the external factors, social experiences, climate, acci- 



. and disease modify and condition tl ions and eom- 



v of the endocrine system. As these modificat 

 MM are of the greatest import for the final el 

 of the personality, comp* t hoy do tin its of the 



i«ciou8 which connrv the unique stamp of normal, abnormal, 

 ' or subnormal, it is worth while now to n 

 most • mining laws. M phe- 



nomenon, both conscious and m with th 



mechania 

 comes possible for us, by their aid, to analyze the conscious, 



;L< onscious and the unconscious with the terms long cu 



I analyses of physics. 



i is an energy m h it is constantly 



losing energy as a consists of parts constantly accumulate 



