Note 189:1 — V
Reading edition
Sallustius's view of sacrifice is curiously like the illuminating theory of MM. Hubert and Mauss, in which they define primitive sacrifice as a medium, a bridge or lightning-conductor, between the profane and the sacred. 'Essai sur la Nature et la Fonction du Sacrifice' (Année Sociologique, ii. 1897-8), since republished in the Mélanges d'Histoire des Religions, 1909.