Abstract
How might have an advanced graduate student, with knowledge of sociology and philosophy, taken to The Elementary Forms of Religious Life in the spring of 1914? Before making his own commentary, he discusses five reviews that appeared before the English translation of 1915. All the historical data in his letter are factual, from George Santayana down to the original cost of the French edition of Durkheim’s magnum opus.
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