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them, permutations and blendings of them, are responsible for 

 those unique wonders of the universe, personalities. 



The riddle of personality ! Are we at last upon the track of its 

 uncovering? That elusive mystery, which philosophers have 

 wrapped in the thousand veils of Greek and Latin words, and 

 psychologists, even unto the third and fourth generation of 

 Freudians, have floundered about in, moles before a dazzling sun, 

 is it to be unwound for our inspection? Think of the human 

 soul. What an invisible, intangible chameleon is its true reality ! 

 Watch it, and you see something that seems to uncurl and expand 

 like a feather with exultation and delight and joy, to contract 

 and stiffen into a billiard ball with fear and pride, shrewd caution 

 and vigilant malevolence, to rear back and spark fire like light- 

 ning with anger and temper, and to crawl and slither with abjec- 

 tion and smirking slyness, when it needs to. This multiplex 

 Thing-Behind-Life, are we really about to dissect it into its 

 elements? 



Personality embraces much more than merely the psychic 

 attributes. It is not the least important of the lessons of en- 

 docrine analysis that there is no soul, and no body, either. 

 Rather a soul-body, or body-soul, or the patterns of the living 

 flame. The closer tracking of the internal secretions leads us 

 into the secrets of the living flame, why it lives, and how it lives, 

 the strange diversities of its colorings and music and the odd 

 variations in its energy, vitality and longevity. Why it flickers, 

 why it flares and glares, spurts, flutters, burns hard or soft, 

 orange-blue or yellow. 



The medieval scholiasts, who fought as fiercely about names as 

 nations about territories, divided men into the sanguine, the 

 bilious, the lymphatic and the nervous. It was a pretty crude 

 classification of different constitutions. The endocrine criteria, 

 more exact and concrete, divide them into the adrenal centered, 

 the thyroid centered, the thymus centered, the pituitary centered, 

 the gonad centered, and their combinations. 



The Adrenal Personalities 



hn adrenal personality is one dominated by the ups and 

 downs of his adrenal gland. In the large, the curve of his life 

 is the curve of secretion by this gland, both of its Cortex and 

 medulla. Such an adrenal personality is entirely normal, within 

 the definition of the normal as something not threatening the 



