254 THE GLANDS REGULATING PERSONALITY 



the height, the facial features, the hands, and the sort of men- 

 tality that run together in his endocrine make-up. He also has 

 the headaches. It is quite probable that feeding him pituitary 

 gland extract in the proper dosage would relieve him of his h» 

 aches. A process might be 1 in his pituitary, however, 



that would diminish its extraordinary output which i -ted 



to make his brain so brilliant. The possibility, nevertheless, is 

 excessively remote as the pituitary predominance in him is so 

 overwhelming, that nothing short of surgery, nature's or the 

 medical graduate's, could really affect that overmastering emi- 

 nence. The time will come, though it is not yet by a long, long 

 road, when we shall be able to intervene, and perhaps meddle, 

 in nature's most intimate plans. The right of the power to 

 modify, like the power to kill, will be defined and limited by 

 common agreement before that goal will be reached. 



