The glands regulating personality : a study of the glands of internal secretion in relation to the types of human nature / by Louis Berman.

  • Louis Berman
Date:
1928
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    invincible optimists, the eugenists: it is perhaps a case of a virtue “Bible ofTSSlt^ ^US Fl'ancis Galton’ preface of the “Theret nnfhnlCS’-t1IS °n Hereditary Genius, declares: in that ,f , el ller - the history of domestic animals or m that of evolution to make us doubt that a race of sane men morally to th^M H° b® 3S much superior> mentally and orally, to the Modern European, as the Modern European is to tion Bto Cabo Negr,°,racfHiSh h°Pes beat in this declara¬ tion. But Galton could not have foreseen that the signing of a alfthe°othePM bJ 0IVf th<3 Modern Europeans would let loose fnil + f it ¥Todern Europeans in a pandemonium of horrors the to kL n gl'°i rf °0Uld n0t but envy as a masterpiece of It, * -feTd to,be suspiciously easy for him to accept an African^ewf6 d°W ^ ^ h®ight he had c]imbed from the of The6 ZgtTlV°Uld PUt, the'r trUSt in the encouraged breeding of the best and the compulsory sterility of the rest. But what is the best, and who are the best, and where will you find them when they are not inextricably emulsified with the worst? It’s a ong, long way to the day of a segregating out and in of Mendelian S'ot3 isCto b !his is, 3 Stra^e w°rld of choices Nobody is to be considered worthy of parenthood until he has dechioTaTr Pl°Pelly- N°body who would Permit an outsider’s decision as to when he was properly in love would be worth thirty cents as a parent There is the ultimate dilemma of the eugenist the dilemma which destroys forever the dream of a control of parenthood lrom the point of view of merely psychic values. NEW PSYCHOLOGY There are the claims and outcries and promises of the psy¬ chologists—the specialists in the probing of the human soul and luman nature. In our time, the demand for a dynamic psychol¬ ogy of process and becoming, psychology with an energy in it as split them into two schools—the emphasizers of instinct and the subconscious, the McDougallians, and the pleaders for sex and the unconscious, the Freudians. A synthesis between these two groups is latent, since their differences are those of horizon merely. For the McDougallians look upon the world with two eyes and see it whole and broad—the Freudians see through their telescope a circular field and exclaim that they behold the universe. It is true that they own a telescope But what has either to offer our quest for light on the future of the species? Nothing very much. Thus, to turn to the disciples