8 MENTAL PHENOMENA IN ACEPHALOUS ANIMALS. 



what they would not question appertains to conscious, intel- 

 ligent design in man, or in other animals possessed of a brain. 

 It cannot be maintained that they are here in error ; but it 

 is at least probable that they frequently confound reality and 

 resemblance, mistaking the real for the apparent, or vice 

 versa, and that they allow themselves to be misled in their 

 inferences by the mere presence or absence of a brain or nervous 

 system. 



