_The Cosmological System of Totemism and the Idea of Class_
I.--The classification of things into clans, phratries and classes 141
II.--Genesis of the notion of class: the first classifications of things take their forms from society--Differences between the sentiment of the differences of things and the idea of class-- Why this is of social origin 144
III.--Religious significance of these classifications: all of the things classified into a clan partake of the nature of the totem and its sacred character--The cosmological system of totemism--Totemism as the tribal religion 148
_The Individual Totem and the Sexual Totem_
I.--Individual totem as a forename; its sacred character-- Individual totem as personal emblem--Bonds between the man and his individual totem--Relations with the collective totem 157
II.--The totems of sexual groups--Resemblances and differences with the collective and individual totems--Their tribal nature 165
_Critical Examination of Preceding Theories_
I.--Theories which derive totemism from a previous religion: from the ancestor cult (Wilken and Tylor); from the nature cult (Jevons)--Criticism of these theories 168
II.--Theories which derive collective totemism from individual totemism--Origins attributed by these theories to the individual totem (Frazer, Boas, Hill Tout)--Improbability of these hypotheses--Reasons showing the priority of the collective totem 172
III.--Recent theory of Frazer: _conceptional_ and local totemism--The begging of the question upon which it rests--The religious character of the totem is denied--Local totemism is not primitive 180
IV.--Theory of Lang: that the totem is only a name--Difficulties in explaining the religious character of totemic practices from this point of view 184
V.--All these theories explain totemism only by postulating other religious notions anterior to it 186
_The Notion of the Totemic Principle, or Mana, and the Idea of Force_
I.--The notion of the totemic force or principle--Its ubiquity-- Its character at once physical and moral 188
II.--Analogous conceptions in other inferior societies--The gods in Samoa, the wakan of the Sioux, the orenda of the Iroquois, the mana of Melanesia--Connection of these notions with totemism--The Arunkulta of the Arunta 191