CHAP. XI.] 



THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE CAT. 



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cannot control. Sucli are the actions within the nervous system 

 itself, and the changes which take place in the ultimate suhstance 

 of the other tissues beyond the reach of the finest vessels or the 

 most delicate nerves. 



Some actions (such as those above referred to) we know, by our 

 own experience, are " felt " actions — the " subjective " and im- 

 material phenomenon taking place simultaneously Avith the bodily 

 change. But no physiologist can deny but that otber nerve actions, 



Fig. 1C4. — DORATASPIS POLYANASTRA, YOUNC.. SHOWING ITS MULTIPOLAR MODE OF GROWTH. 

 The SPHERICAL SHELLS ARE FORMED BY OUTGROWTHS, WHICH SPRING FROM THE 

 RADIATING PARTS AT SIMILAR DISTANCES FROM THE CENTRE OF THE SHELL. ThE 

 LATERAL EXTENSIONS FROM 'J'lIE RADII MEETING TO FORM A SPHERE BY THEIR 

 JUNCTIONS. 



which are not felt, may have their quasi-subjective or immaterial 

 sides also. More than this : to be rational, we must admit that every 

 action of any animal really has its quasi-subjective or immaterial side. 

 Mr. Bain has said,* "It would be incompatible with everything 

 we know of cerebral action, to suppose that the physical chain [of 

 phenomena] ends abruptly in a physical void, occupied by an im- 

 material substance ; which immaterial substance, after working 

 alone, imparts its results to the other edge of the physical break, 

 and determines the active response — two shores of the material, with 

 an intervening ocean of the immaterial." This is good as far as 

 it goes, but the converse is at the least as inconceivable — namely, a 

 break in the immaterial chain, bridged over by the intervention of 

 a physical substance. Moreover, what Bain here affirms with respect 

 to the brain and its activity, must, by any logical pyschologist, be 

 also affirmed with respect to every entire living organism and its 

 activity. We find in each organism a chain of physical phenomena 



iliud and Body, p. 13. 



