The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

ORIGINS OF THESE BELIEFS--(_continued_) _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 III.--Logical priority of impersonal force over the different mythical personalities--Recent theories which tend to admit this priority 198 IV.--The notion of religious force is the prototype of that of force in general 203