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large firm muscles, and proportionately sized hands and feet. 

 The head is of the marked dolichocephalic type, flattened at the 

 sides, f ace is oval more or less, with thick eyebrows, eyes rather 

 prominent, nose broadish and long, lower jaw prominent and firm. 

 Prominent bony^ points like the cheek bones, the elbows and the 

 knees, tKeTnuckle joints of the hands and feet. The teethjire 

 large, especially the upper middle incisors, and they are usually 

 spaced. The arms_and_legs ^arejhairy. High grade brains, the 

 ability^ tojearn, and the ability_jto_control, self-mastery in the 

 sense of domination _ of jthe LJgwer instincts and the automatic 

 reactions of the vegetative nervous system, the rule by the indi- 

 vidual of himself and his environment are at their maximum in 

 him. The ante-pituitary personality is educable for intelligence, 

 and even jntellect, provided the proper educational stimulus is 

 supplied. Men of brains, practical and theoretical, philosophers, 

 tlimEers, creators of new thoughts and new goods, belong to this 

 group. The distinction between men of theoretical genius, whose 

 minds which could embrace a universe, and yet fail to manage 

 successfully their own personal everyday lives, and the men of 

 practical genius, who can achieve and execute, the great engineers, 

 and industrial men lies in the balance between the ante-pituitary 

 and the adrenal cortex primarily. Men like Abraham Lincoln 

 and George Bernard Shaw belong to this antej-pituitary group. 



The feminine pituitary personality, in whom there is predom- 

 inance of the post-pituitary over the ante-pituitary, occurs in 

 men. The type is short, rounded and stout. They have heads 

 that seem too large for their bodies, the general hair distribution 

 on the trunk and extremities is poor, although that of the scalp 

 and face is plentiful, and they acquire an abdominal paunch 

 early. They exhibit the feminine tendency to periodicity of 

 function, their moods, activities, efficiency are cyclic, reminding 

 one of the menstrual variations of the female. This rhythmicity 

 saturates their personalities, so that poetry and music almost 

 morbidly appeal to them. A number of the great poets and 

 musicians are to be classified as of the feminine pituitary species. 

 Last, but not least, they are the hen-pecked lovers and husbands. 

 Sex difficulties are frequent in their history. 



The determination of endocrine type and tendencies, the pre- 

 diction of the future personality, during childhood is one of the 

 developments confidently to be looked for, as our knowledge of 

 the internal secretions will grow. The possibilities of control 



