Note 670 — Chapter VI · ORIGINS OF THESE BELIEFS—continued The Notion of the Totemic Principle, or Mana, and the Idea of Force
Joseph Ward Swain translation
However, we do not take this word in the same sense as Preuss and Marrett. According to them, there was a time in religious evolution when men knew neither souls nor spirits: a preanimistic phase. But this hypothesis is very questionable: we shall discuss this point below (Bk. II, ch. viii and ix).