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He indicated again the direction of the theater from which they had just emerged. "She would have liked him," Billy said gloomily, "but the show would have started her arguing about this whole moving-picture proposition, its crudity, and its tremendous sacrifice of artistic values, and so on and so on." "Sure, she's a highbrow. Highbrows always cerebrate about the movies in one way or another.
They don't cerebrate. They don't co-ordinate. They don't correlate. They have no initiative, no creative faculty, no mental curiosity or reflexes or reactions. They're nothing but an unrelated bunch of instincts, intuitions, and impulses human nonsense machines! Why if the positions were reversed and we'd lost our wings, we'd have been trying to walk the first day.
"'I draw the line at bein' a cerebrate, he says. 'I'm willin' to sell all my goods an' divide with the poor, he says, 'but I ain't goin' to lie no cerebrate. If I don't have no other luxuries, I will have a wife, he says. 'I've hed three, an' if this one don't last me out, I'll get another, if it's only to start the kitchen fire in the mornin' an' put the cat in the shed nights!"
In cerebrate animals the reaction of the individual is under the guidance of preceding impressions stored in the pallium and known as memories; whereas in the animals without a pallium all reaction is accomplished through stable mechanisms known as instincts. Both of these types of reaction are tropisms merely; but the former are labile, conditionable; whereas the latter cannot be modified.
And Downs would conscientiously cerebrate, and come forth after some seconds with sound solutions, such as: "I'll see if I can put you in before Mr. de Gales if you're in a hurry, sir," or "Scrambled eggs, sir it'll make a bit of a change." And when George agreed, Downs would exhibit a restrained but real satisfaction. Yes, George had been very lucky. The club too was lucky.
The science of conditionable reactions of cerebrate animals is called psychology, and the means by which the reactions are influenced are called psychogenetic, whether these are healthy or diseased.
Yet when you've got a boss who always expects you to cerebrate in high gear, as he's so fond of puttin' it, you've got to produce something off-hand, or stall around. "Now, let's see," says I, registerin' deep thought, "if Penrhyn was to go anywhere on his own hook, where would it be? You know his habits pretty well, Mr. Robert. What's your guess?"
Miss Upton did not help her out, but, regaining control of her risibles, continued to eat and drink placidly, allowing her companion to cerebrate.
When we medical men speak of the workings of the brain we make use of a term both expressive and characteristic. It is to cerebrate. To cerebrate means to think, to reason, and to reach conclusions; it means to concentrate and to work hard. To think, then, is to cerebrate. To worry is to cerebrate intensely.
Like his 'lonely cerebrate' hero, Gissing himself, at school and college, 'worked insanely. Walked much alone, shunned companionship rather than sought it, worked as he walked, and was marked down as a 'pot-hunter. He 'worked while he ate, he cut down his sleep, and for him the penalty came, not in a palpable, definable illness, but in an abrupt, incongruous reaction and collapse. With rage he looked back on these insensate years of study which had weakened him just when he should have been carefully fortifying his constitution.
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