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from the whole of speech, especially if we go back to 

 the primitive value of words and to their roots, it 

 appears to what a vast extent man originally projected 

 himself, his consciousness, emotions, and purposes 

 into inanimate things ; and how, even under the 

 historical conditions of civilization, he still personifies 

 the world, and ascribes to it the forms of his own 

 body and limbs. 



Again, we have plainly shown that man, by 

 the intrinsic reduplication of his psychical faculty, 

 spontaneously retains and personifies the inward 

 phantasm generated by such a projection of special 

 natural objects on his perception. In the genesis of 

 such fetishes, and also when, by an effort of will, he 

 recalls them to his mind, this faculty with its con- 

 stituent elements is brought into action. In fact, 

 when the image is recalled to the mind, it is repre- 

 sented like the external phenomenon ; and consequently 

 it involves and generates the thing of which the 

 phenomenon is the external vest, that is, its causative 

 power; and in this way the objective process of its 

 formation is inwardly reproduced. Since the cosmic 

 reality is thus ideally reproduced, the inward sub- 

 stance of the fetish assumes a really efficacious power, 

 whether in its extrinsic form, or in its intrinsic 

 image, and in this way primitive superstitious had 

 their source. 



In the case of savage and primitive man the inward 

 image of the fetish without its bodily presence is, 



