Note 162 — Chapter V · CITIES AND PEOPLES (B) PEOPLES, RACES, TONGUES
Charles Francis Atkinson translation
Obviously, Totemistic facts, so far as they come under the observation of the waking-consciousness, obtain a significance of the Taboo kind also; much in man’s sexual life, for example, is performed with a profound sense of fear, because his will-to-understand is baffled by it.