210 THE GLANDS REGULATING PERSONALITY 



persons, and even pigment-spotted fair people. Historians have 



traced the civilization to the doings of a brunette people, 



Sumerians, the first to build cities m the Kuphrates-Tigris 



region more than five thousand j fore Christ was born. 



Irenalizcd people one would expect to be the first to 

 advantage of possibilities 1 of their energy capacity. The 



earliest Sumerian stone carvings of warriors exhibit an under- 

 i compared with the large head, broad face, a low 

 hair line and prominent nose that would fit into the ensemble of 

 the adrenal type. Certain other historical aspects of the adrenal 

 personality have yet to be worked out. 



The Pituitary Personalities 



The presence of two antagonistic elements in the one gland 

 complicates any attempt at even the most abstract analysis of 

 a personality dominated by that gland. The pituitary, composed 

 of an anterior lobe and posterior lobe, supplies two fairly_un- 

 compl ponding types, best described as I uline 



type, and the feminine pituitary type. The masculine 

 pituitary type is one determined by the rule of the an 

 pituitary, representing su perlative brain tone and good 



aH-around growth and harmoniou ral function, the ideal 



m. The feminine pituitary type has an i 

 of post-pituitary, with susceptibility to the tender i 

 sentin rid emotionalism, Feminine structural lines. 



Ante-pituitary dominance in a male reinforces Che general m 

 linity while the post-pituitary d<; -pituitary 



in a worn r natural trend, ante-pituitary tending 



it. In other w< r y are 



COnjUQCth pituitary and ovav disjunct! 



re opponents, ante-pituitary and testis are 



nical circumstance involved in the pituil 

 • be t) ntire life hi 



(he pituitar I in ■ 



small ill. The size of this bony 



Id to the various i 



h-pell } 



able. All i itr a for th< inique 



