or generations. According to Darwin (Descent of Man)
"the development of the beard and the hairiness of the body differ
remarkably in the men of distinct races, and even in different tribes,
and families of the same race. On the European-Asiatic continent,
beards prevail, until we pass beyond India, although with the
natives of Ceylon they are often absent.... Eastward of India beards
disappear, as with the Siamese, Kalmuks, Malays, Chinese, and
Japanese. Throughout the great American continent the men may be said
to be beardless: but in almost all tribes a few short hairs are apt to
appear on the face, especially in old age...." Hair being an adrenal
cortex trait, it is to be inferred that hairless families and races
are more eunuchoid, and possess less of the adrenal cortex secretion
than the more hairy.

Whatever the exceptions--and there have been eunuch generals in
history--Marces, Chancellor of Justinian, who beat the Goths at
Nocera, and Ali the Gallant who commanded the Turkish Army after the
invasion of Hungary in 1856--the eunuchoid generally runs to type in
his mentality and his sexuality. He is an introvert, his personality
is shut in, he isolates himself from the world.

The lower eunuchoids exhibit a curiously child-like personality.
Naively confiding, communicating to all comers all their joys and
sorrows, they ask diffidently for confirmation of their statements,
and they pass quickly from tears to laughter. About sexual matters
they are extremely timid. A moral innocence pervades their speech and
conduct. Usually they have no true conception of crimes of jealousy
or passion. The occupations they go in for are those without
responsibility away from crowds or observation, such as ship cooks,
stewards, and so on. They marry to find a home, without the object of
establishing sexual relations. When they are asked whether they think
their wives will be pleased to look at the matter in the same light,
and be contented to live with a man upon such conditions, they are
puzzled or perplexed, as if they had never thought seriously about
the matter before. Their simplicity has even extended to proposing to
their wives to seek gratification from some other man. Naturally, such
an arrangement often proves unsatisfactory, and desertion follows.

Concerning the children sometimes the offspring of these unions,
scepticism as to the identity of the father is decidedly permissible.
Still in some cases the best of evide