Note 207 — Chapter IV · TOTEMISM AS AN ELEMENTARY RELIGION History of the Question.—Method of Treating it
Joseph Ward Swain translation
Undoubtedly we also consider that the principal object of the science of religions is to find out what the religious nature of man really consists in. However, as we do not regard it as a part of his constitutional make-up, but rather as the product of social causes, we consider it impossible to find it, if we leave aside his social environment.