Note 146 — Chapter IV · THE INFANTILE RECURRENCE OF TOTEMISM
A. A. (Abraham Arden) Brill translation
“By the nature of the case, as the origin of totemism lies far beyond our powers of historical examination or of experiment, we must have recourse as regards this matter, to conjecture,” Andrew Lang, Secret of the Totem, p. 27.—“Nowhere do we see absolutely primitive man, and a totemic system in the making,” p. 29.