That alone was not all.  If hundreds collapsed, thousands approached the verge of collapse.  They survived and were discharged from the armies as normal.  They reappear in civil life as cases of “nerves.”  Ordinarily that would mean that they would be classed as failures.  But such have been the psychologic reactions to the war that all kinds of compensations in the way of dangerous mental states have become frequent in these inadequate adrenal types.  A trend to violence and a resentful emotionalism are combined with desperate attempts to spur the jaded adrenals with artificial excitements.  Consequent melancholia and depression, the “blues,” are inevitable.  A survey of drug addicts would probably show a definite percentage of this type.  The same applies to certain petty criminals and law breakers.

The adrenal element in the personality must be considered in every disturbance, morbid, personal, or social involving brunette types, Huxley’s dark white, Mediterranean-Iberians, red-haired persons, and even pigment-spotted fair people.  Historians have traced the earliest civilization to the doings of a brunette people, the Sumerians, the first to build cities in the Euphrates-Tigris region more than five thousand years before Christ was born.  An adrenalized people one would, expect to be the first to take advantage of possibilities because of their energy capacity.  The earliest Sumerian stone carvings of warriors exhibit an undersized skeleton 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 uncomplicated corresponding types, best described as the masculine pituitary type, and the feminine 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.