Note 733 — Chapter VII · ORIGINS OF THESE BELIEFS—end Origin of the Idea of the Totemic Principle or Mana

The mental state studied in this paragraph is identical to the one called by Lévy-Bruhl the law of participation (Les fonctions mentales dans les sociétés inférieures, pp. 76 ff.). The following pages were written when this work appeared and we publish them without change; we confine ourselves to adding certain explanations showing in what we differ from M. Lévy-Bruhl in our understanding of the facts.