238 THE GLANDS REGULATING PERSONALITY 



In a set of volumes, entitled Biographic Clinics, Dr. George 

 M. Gould of Philadelphia contended that the ill health of a 

 number of men and women of genius of the nineteenth century 



due to uncorrected eye troubles. In attempting to b 

 up his thesis he has collected biographic material useful to the 

 student of personality. He never appears to have asked himself 

 what was behind the eye trouble. The evidence relating to 

 Nietzsche's endocrine personality is derived from some of the 

 he collected, as well as from the two volume life of the 

 philosopher written by his sister, and the other biographies of 

 him extant. 



To reconstruct the endocrine formula or equation of Nietzsche 

 inductively, one should analyze first the information available 

 concerning his parents and relatives. His grandfather was a con- 

 servative bourgeois of a superior type, who was the author of 



ises designed to narcotize the forces of rebellion of his time. 

 What he was like physically, no epitaph declares. His father was 

 a clergyman. A description of him reads . . . "tall and slender, 

 with a noble and poetic personality, and a peculiar talent for 

 music . . . short-sighted." That ranks him at once as a pituito- 

 centric. The mother was dark and had a fiery temper and 

 of a family distinguished for the powerfully built anatomy of its 

 members. In the heredity of Nietzsche, the father appears there- 



to supply a pituitary predominating element, the mother an 



;.d-pituitary predominating element. 

 Nietzsche himself worked strenuously at the intellectual life 



r 20, when he probably stopped growing, and the brain tonic 



i of the ante-pituitary could inanift >. Early dis- 



tinction rewarded him with a professorship in philology | 

 One of Prussia's wars of conquest entangled liim. and | 

 him with diphtheria. A friendship With Richard Wagner DQ 



Oiling point of his life, and the point of departure for his 



taJ values of human life 

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suffer! \ him fa b and memory, and 



thence f< ui li tl ion, phj 



and reproduce ptures of N at different ages. 



