Note 388 — Chapter II · TOTEMIC BELIEFS—continued The Totemic Animal and Man
Joseph Ward Swain translation
Perhaps there is no religion which makes man an exclusively profane being. For the Christian, the soul which each of us has within him and which constitutes the very essence of our being, has something sacred about it. We shall see that this conception of the soul is as old as religious thought itself. The place of man in the hierarchy of sacred things is more or less elevated.