, Caesar and Alexander, as well as Mr. Smith and Miss
Jones come within the range of the normal. There are all kinds and
conditions and sorts of men and women, and all kinds and sorts and
conditions of the normal, because an incalculable number of harmonious
relations and interactions between the endocrines are possible, and
do actually occur. The standard of the normal must obviously not be
a single standard, but a series of standards, depending upon which
glands predominate, and how the others adapt themselves to its
predominance. Adrenal-centered types, thyroid-centered types,
pituitary-centered types, thymus-centered types, as well as hyphenated
compounds of these, such as the pituitary-adrenal types, exist as
normals. They can be conceived of as normal types because they exist
as normal types.

THE SKELETAL TYPES

Now men, for as long as we have any knowledge of their thoughts and
classifications and attitudes, have been accustomed to first think
of one another, to classify and size one another as tall or short,
slender or broad, thin or corpulent. The biological necessity, indeed,
instinct of the one animal to relate the other animal to aggressive or
harmless agencies in his surroundings, accounts for this. Relatively,
of course, for all these modes of description imply offensive or
defensive possibilities of the stimulus for the recorder in relation
to himself. The interest in stature is fundamental, and has persisted
in the most civilized, nations. The relationship of height and weight,
as well as of length and breadth, to other physical traits, have
formed the subject of scientific study. There is, for instance, the
classification of Bean, who divided mankind generally into two types,
those of a medium size, stocky long legs and arms, large hands and
feet, short trunk, and face large in comparison to the head (the
meso-onto-morphs) and those who were either tall and slender, or small
and delicate, with the smaller face, eyes close together, long, high,
narrow nose, and trunk longer as compared with the extremities (the
hyper-onto-morphs). Bean showed, too, that the hypers (to use a short
word to contrast with the mesos) were present to the extent of almost
a hundred per cent in a series of tuberculosis, and about ninety per
cent in a series of central nervous system disease. All of which is
exceedingly interesting and suggestive, but throws no light upon the
underlying mechanisms of statures.

STATURE AND G