tral cause ... half-dead
with pain and exhaustion." In December 1888, he fell, had to be
helped home, lay silent for two days, then became loud, active and
unbalanced. The attack was preceded by the drinking of much water.

The specific quality of the Nietzsche genius also directs attention to
a pituitocentric, to a pituitocentric in whom both ante-pituitary and
post-pituitary are extraordinarily well-functioning, but are in a
state of unbalance in which the post-pituitary gets the upper hand.
Now, as we have seen, the post-pituitary makes for that instability
of association between the brain cells which must be at the bottom of
originality and creative thought, as well as of phobias, obsessions,
hysterias and hallucinations. Persons in whom the post-pituitary
predominates have a lively fancy and are liable to suffer from the
tricks of association. Nietzsche, as we have noted, was poor in
mathematics and in the calm cool proportioned forward march of
scientific thought in general. His most brilliant ideas came to him in
flashes and gleams. That is why so much of his work has come down to
us in the form of aphorisms and paragraphs. He was, essentially, a
poet among the metaphysicians, which again favors the conception of
him as a pituitary-centered with a dominant post-pituitary. Yet his
incisive critical faculty, as well as his love of music, also document
the supernormal ante-pituitary.

To sum up, the physique and physiognomy of Nietzsche, his migraine
attacks and the later fate which overtook him, his likes and
dislikes, his tastes, abilities and accomplishments followed from his
composition as one pituitary-centered, with post-pituitary domination,
a superior thyroid, and inferior adrenals.

DARWIN AS A NEURASTHENIC GENIUS

Charles Darwin, as the author of the "Origin of Species" and the
greatest revolutionist of the nineteenth century, has naturally had
a great deal of attention paid to his life and personality. Yet not
until the publication of his Autobiography and his son's Reminiscences
was it generally known that he suffered from chronic ill health for
most of his adult life. Dr. W.A. Johnston, in an article in the
_American Anthropologist_, 1901, has marshalled a number of available
facts, to sustain his thesis that Darwin was a victim of neurasthenia.
Now neurasthenia, it is now accepted, is simply a waste-basket word,
corresponding to the class miscellaneous in a classification of any
group of real obje