But, he warns, this universal spirit, which his uncle, Emile Durkheim, had airily postulated, can only be recognized after taking into account psychological, religious, magical and pragmatic factors. This is clearly impossible.
anyone was capable of any such omniscience
Only a professor at the College de France could imagine that anyone (let alone someone who had exchanged bovine nicknames with a Masai warrior) was capable of any such omniscience.
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