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If totemism be taken in the simpler sense, as a certain sort of intimate relation between men and nonhuman things, it will be found to be widely distributed in the noncivilized world.

From Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV by Jastrow, Morris