Note 625 — Chapter VI · [168] DISCUSSION OF KINSHIP
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Similar ideas have been enunciated by M. Lévy-Bruhl, loc. cit., pp. 388-402. Some of the Australian facts are quoted and interpreted there in an analogous way. M. Lévy-Bruhl naturally does not enter into as many particulars as has been necessary here, but his conclusion, "l'enfant-esprit qui se réincarne est déjà dans une relation determinée avec le père et la mère qui lui donnent naissance," is nearly identical with what we have endeavoured to prove here. Perhaps the word "relation" does not quite coincide with what we are especially concerned with in this place, i. e. individual kinship, and has a wider, more general meaning.