On the whole, I regard it as more probable than not, that, in the education of mankind, Totemism has played a part everywhere; a beneficent part. But this is only a private opinion: one believes in it as one believes in telepathy, without asserting that the evidence is of constraining value.
[1] Mr. Haddon agrees on this point.
[2] Codrington, The Melanesians, chaps, iii. iv.
[3] Op. cit. p. 21.
[4] Op. cit. p. 22.
[5] Ibid. p. 26.
[6] Op. cit. p. 32.
[7] Tylor, J. A. I., August, November. 1898, p. 147.
[8] Op. cit. p. 33.