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teachers alone are duty-obsessed, or perhaps sadistic, the child 

 endures the agonies of repeated admonitions, demotions, and 

 punishments. However, a certain thick-skinned indifference may 

 develop to protect the sufferer. 



If the parents are in addition ambitious, or proud, or competi- 

 tive, then woe betide the victim. With their nervous dispositions, 

 it is £he school and the tutor who are to be blamed, if not the 

 child. From school to school, from system to system, from 

 novelty to fad, from doctor to doctor, from fakir to charlatan, 

 from pillar to post, they wander in search of an education. 

 Educational cults by the dozen have sprouted and grown fat 

 around these unfortunates. 



The chief defect of the congenital adrenal inadequate is an 

 insufficiently developed adrenal cortex. That means an insuf- 

 ficiently developed brain and nervous system. For we have 

 seeifhow r closely all these~arelrelated in development. Now edu- 

 cation can never be the education of a vacuum. And we have 

 to deal here with a relative_yacuum. Whenjbhere are no poten- 

 tialities, there can be no education. Where the potentialities are 

 limited^ education must be limited: The congenital adrenal inade- 

 q uate is defined in physical and mental energy . Hence educators 

 cannot drive him. Up to a certain point he can be led, but no 

 farther. He should not be expected to go to a college, and waste 

 the opportunity of some one financially unlucky, but whose en- 

 docrine system is more generously endowed. 



Not that the outlook is absolutely hopeless. Puberty, with its 

 tremendous changes in the glands of internal secretion, when one 

 can almost hear the clicks and the whirring of the wheels in the 

 internal machinery, may^ transform. The unfathomed possibili- 

 ties of gland therapy are still to be probed. But the general 

 rule remains. 



The Reactions to Modernism 



The adrenal personalities in all their variations must ^safe- 

 guarded jind carefully looked after in the strained complexities 

 of modern l^t-^lTunTcivilization. In a sense, the adrenal 

 type is the Atlas of the twentieth century world, and small won- 

 der that he and his descendants stagger beneath the burden. The 

 adrenals are_organs_for the mobilization of energy. physical_and 

 m^entaT7 for emergencies. They are the_ghnd_s wliich meet shocks 

 alaTlolfutralize the effects of shock. In the solitary animal, the 



