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in adopting the mental states as her standards, is also a register of 

 the mind, and converts actions into habits, or in other words, into 

 structures. And thus the whole man, genius, intelligence, logic, 

 sense, skill, action, may be called instinctive or given in nature, if 

 we look at him from this providential side, whose organ neither 

 slumbers nor sleeps. 



Man then, as we see, is captured in sleep, not by death, but by 

 his better nature : today runs in through a deeper day to become 

 the parent of to-morrow; and the man issues every morning, bright 

 as the morning and of life size, from the peaceful womb of the 

 cerebellum. 



If these views be carefully weighed, it will be found that they 

 harmonize with the facts of the case, and not less so with experi- 

 ments and vivisections. For if the harmonies of the frame, and 

 the undercurrents which make its fitful states normal, depend upon 

 the cerebellum, so also do the harmonies of motions, the production 

 of which has been supposed to be the office of the lesser brain. If 

 we are right, the removal of the cerebellum ought to leave for a 

 time the conscious machinery and powers, but fitful as thought, sense 

 or fancy : the body ought to change like a mind, now acting in part, 

 now ceasing, and in short in everything capricious and partial, as 

 might be expected when the man or animal was given up to his own 

 wisdom, and had lost his organic providence. On the other hand 

 the removal of the cerebrum ought to leave everything, and the 

 power of everything, minus consciousness, and therefore minus the 

 stimuli and beginnings of action which come through consciousness. 

 This of course where no other parts were injured. We may also 

 infer on these principles, that where the condition of animals ap- 

 proaches sleep or inaction, there is less need of a cerebellum, for 

 these creatures are already on the ground, and comparatively secure. 

 But where the least absence of mind might cause a fall, there a per- 

 manent organic provision is required, in the shape of a larger cere- 

 bellum. For we may lay it down as a formula resulting from all 

 now said, that the perpetuation of high motion, composite motion, 

 or harmony, is the function of this organ. On the same principles 

 again it becomes probable, that the genital function assigned by the 

 phrenologists to the cerebellum is founded upon truth, xlnd now 



