text:  Nay even eminent thinkers of the present day when they allow themselves to be involuntarily ensnared (under the influence but partially rectified of a vicious education) to attempt to penetrate the mystery of the essential production of any phenomenon whose laws are not familiar to them they are in a condition personally to exemplify this invariable instinctive tendency to trace the generation of unknown effects to a cause analogous to life which is no other strictly speaking than the principle of fetishism