pituitary type. The masculine pituitary type is one
determined by the rule of the anterior pituitary, representing
superlative brain tone and action, good all-around growth and
harmonious general function, the ideal masculine organism. The
feminine pituitary type has an excess of post-pituitary, with
susceptibility to the tender emotions, sentimentalism, and
emotionalism, feminine structural lines. Ante-pituitary dominance in
a male reinforces the general masculinity while the post-pituitary
depresses it. The post-pituitary in a woman augments her natural
trend, ante-pituitary tending to counteract it. In other words,
post-pituitary and ovary are conjunctive, ante-pituitary and ovary are
disjunctive, post-pituitary and testis are opponents, ante-pituitary
and testis are allies.

One mechanical circumstance involved in the pituitary personalities
may be the determinant of the entire life history. That is the
emphasized fact that the pituitary is encased in a small bony box, at
the base of the skull. The size of this bony box, and its capacity to
yield to the various pressures of a pituitary enlarging to meet the
demands of the organism, will often spell happiness or misery,
success or failure, genius or idiocy for the man or woman. Certain
possibilities are conceivable. All of them occur, for the developments
of X-ray technique have rendered available almost a direct view of the
sella turcica.

In the first place, the bony box may be definitely too small to start
in with. That means a small and so potentially inadequate pituitary,
both anterior and posterior, potentially inadequate in that it will
become impossible for it to grow and produce extra secretion upon
demand. Handicapped thus, the unfortunate so born is doomed to
inferiority and very little can be done for him. He will not develop
satisfactorily. He possesses small genital organs which will not
evolve properly in adolescence, or if they will not stand still, tend
to revert to the opposite sex type. Then he tends to be dwarfed,
fatigable, adipose. Among these types are included subjects of
obsessions and compulsions who are dull and apathetic, cannot learn or
maintain inhibitions, and so, without initiative, evolve into moral
and intellectual degenerates, liable to epilepsy and the most
remarkable sex aberrations. All because a cranny of the skull, about
the size of a thimble, is not large enough for their dominating gland.

If the bone of the cavity of the