Note (13) — 2.
Reading edition
Anläßlich einer solchen Sinnesänderung schrieb er den schönen Satz nieder: »That my conclusions on these difficult questions are final, I am not so foolish as to pretend. I have changed my views repeatedly, and I am resolved to change them again with every change of the evidence, for like a chameleon the candid enquirer should shift his colours with the shifting colours of the ground he treads.« Vorrede zum I. Band von Totemism and Exogamy. 1910.