Note (133) — IV. DIE INFANTILE WIEDERKEHR DES TOTEMISMUS.
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Anläßlich einer solchen Sinnesänderung schrieb er den schönen Satz nieder: »That my conclusions on these difficult questions are final, I am not so foolish as to pretend. I have changed my views repeatedly, and I am resolved to change them again with every change of the evidence, for like a chameleon the candid enquirer should shift his colours with the shifting colours of the ground he treads.« Vorrede zum I. Band von Totemism and Exogamy. 1910.