[(13)] 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.
[(14)] »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«, A. Lang, Secret of the Totem, p. 27. – »Nowhere do we see absolutely primitive man, and a totemic system in the making.« p. 29.
[(15)] Wahrscheinlich ursprünglich nur nach Tieren.
[(16)] The Worship of Animals and Plants, Fortnightly Review 1869–1870. – Primitive marriage 1865; beide Arbeiten abgedruckt in Studies in ancient History 1876. 2. ed. 1886.
[(17)] The Secret of the Totem. 1905, p. 34.
[(18)] Nach A. Lang, Secret of the Totem, p. 34.
[(19)] Ibid.
[(20)] Nach A. Lang.
[(21)] Pikler und Somló, Der Ursprung des Totemismus. 1901. Die Autoren kennzeichnen ihren Erklärungsversuch mit Recht als »Beitrag zur materialistischen Geschichtstheorie«.
[(22)] The origin of animal worship, Fortnightly Review 1870. Prinzipien der Soziologie. I. Bd., §§ 169 bis 176.