Note 1001 — Chapter I · THE NEGATIVE CULT AND ITS FUNCTIONS THE ASCETIC RITES
Joseph Ward Swain translation
Facts prove the reality of this inconvenience. There is no lack of writers who, putting their trust in the word, have believed that the institution thus designated was peculiar to primitive peoples in general, or even to the Polynesians (see Réville, Religion des peuples primitifs, II, p. 55; Richard, La Femme dans l'histoire, p. 435).