Note 98 — Chapter II · LEADING CONCEPTIONS OF THE ELEMENTARY RELIGION I.—Animism
Joseph Ward Swain translation
This is the word used by Tylor. It has the inconvenience of seeming to imply that men, in the proper sense of the term, existed before there was a civilization. However, there is no proper term for expressing the idea; that of primitive, which we prefer to use, lacking a better, is, as we have said, far from satisfactory.