Note 211 — Chapter IV · THE INFANTILE RECURRENCE OF TOTEMISM
A. A. (Abraham Arden) Brill translation
This new emotional attitude must also have been responsible for the fact that the deed could not bring full satisfaction to any of the perpetrators. In a certain sense it had been in vain. For none of the sons could carry out his original wish of taking the place of the father. But failure is, as we know, much more favourable to moral reaction than success.