Note 597 — Chapter V · ORIGINS OF THESE BELIEFS Critical Examination of Preceding Theories

Though considering totemism only a system of magic, Frazer recognizes that the first germs of a real religion are sometimes found in it (Fortn. Rev., July, 1905, p. 163). On the way in which he thinks religion developed out of magic, see The Golden Bough,2 I, pp. 75-78.