Durkheim

Translated and adapted from Émile Durkheim, La division du travail social, pp. 24-209.

If these arguments are held to prove the inadequacy of Dr. Durkheim's hypothesis, we may bring forward our own.

The totem, says Dr. Durkheim, in explanation of exogamy, is a "god" who is in each member of his group while they are in him.

The supposed process seems to me doubly impossible by Dr. Durkheim's premises.

Not in a moment could they have drawn, on Dr. Durkheim's lines, the inference that none must marry within the sacred totem blood.