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The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life

Note 651 — Chapter VI · ORIGINS OF THESE BELIEFS—continued The Notion of the Totemic Principle, or Mana, and the Idea of Force

Joseph Ward Swain translation

See above, p. 42. Spencer and Gillen recognize this implicitly when they say that the arungquiltha is a "supernatural force." Cf. Hubert and Mauss, Théorie Générale de la Magie, in Année Sociol., VII, p. 119.

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