510 THE FUNCTIONAL RELATIONS OF THE BRAIN 



with Intelligence, or with Conscious Sensibility, notwith- 

 standing the fact that it is a recipient of fibres from all 

 kinds of * sensory ' nuclei is as much in harmony with 

 reason as with experiment — in view of the reflex functions 

 which have been assigned to it. And if the function of 

 the Cerebellum be merely to discharge or give off mole- 

 cular energy for the initiation of Muscular Movements, in 

 response either to definitely localized Volitional Incitations 

 coming to it from the Cerebral Hemispheres, or in response 

 to equally well localized though ' unconscious * Impres- 

 sions, coming from the most various ^ sensory ' nuclei at 

 the base of the Brain and in the Spinal Cord ; we might 

 expect that its microscopic structure would be practically 

 the same throughout all parts of its vastly convoluted and 

 extended superficial Grey Matter — and this it is found 

 to be ; we might expect also that in so far as it is related 

 to the Cerebral Hemispheres, the Cerebellum would act 

 only in response to their incitations — which also seems to 

 be the case. The view here put forward seems, therefore, 

 to be in harmony with a great body of known facts, and 

 to be also capable of including under it a number of 

 opinions in regard to the functions of this organ which 

 have from time to time been enunciated, and which have, 

 perhaps, been faulty only by reason of their more or less 

 narrow and exclusive nature. 



