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without making efforts to maintain its balance."* Such is the want 

 of health or wholeness that comes from rescinding the natural brain 

 that lies behind us, and beginning the intellect afresh with each 

 passing day: for where there is no vis a tergo, there is no direction 

 either in physics or metaphysics. And the sphere may be changed 

 again with the same result. Law-making, which is the political 

 cerebrum, stands in a similar ratio to the public morality, which is 

 the political cerebellum; and where the latter is ignored, political 

 vivisection is performed, and constitution-makers repeat Dr. Car- 

 penter's phenomena on the scale of nations. And even in the high- 

 est sphere, where the cerebrum is termed prudence, and sometimes 

 wisdom, and the cerebellum is providence, we see the same thing. 

 Here the vivisection is frequent, and the results very confirmatory. 

 We see the quirks of men whose actions, vigorous enough, are all 

 tumbling to pieces; spiritual staggering and drunkenness; a positive 

 sense that there is no Glod, but that man is the manager; and the 

 like aberrations. All these instances are in the series of the cere- 

 bellum, and prove the universality of its functions. Man is in the 

 leading-strings of God and nature, and what is greater than himself, 

 to the end of his career; he is as a little child, whether he benefit 

 by it or not; and the sovereignty of the things above him is repre- 

 sented by an organ or envoy from the everlasting, planted in his 

 own head; and which, as we have now sufficiently said, is the cere- 

 bellum. But it lies unobtrusively underneath the cerebrum, be- 

 cause its guidance is nocturnal and unseen; and where it concurs 

 with reason and will, it delights to seem to be their servant and not 

 their master. When therefore the cerebellum or its similars are 

 abstracted, the result is, motion and no harmony, progress without 

 balance, thought without common sense, art without nature, philo- 

 sophy without humanity, freedom without a career or destiny, and 

 prudence alien to providence. In constituting this little series, we 

 seem to hear the whisper of a reason why our own age has no reve- 

 lation concerning the function of the cerebellum. 



A word with regard to the usage of the brain. This grows with 

 our years. At first all is impression and convulsion ; very little 



* Manual of Physiology, n. 912. 



