This appears to mean that savages began by making two divisions, bearing totem names, and established them as primary _exogamous_ divisions. Later they cut them up into slices, each slice with a newer totem name. Or the totem divisions are evolved within the phratry, somehow or other, as in one of Mr. Fison’s views. Or they are ‘added’--for what purpose? Thus every tribesman has now a ‘class name’ (phratry name)--an _old_ totem name (say either Eagle-Hawk or Crow), and no Crow may marry an Eagle-Hawk. But, later, they split Crows up into, say, bats, rats, cats, and kangaroos, while they split Eagle-Hawk up into, say, grubs, emus, mice, and frogs. Now each person, under this arrangement, has two totem names. He is Eagle-Hawk (old) and (new) grub, emu, mouse, or frog: or he is Crow (old) and (new) bat, cat, rat, or kangaroo. If cat, he may not only not marry a Crow, but also he may not marry a cat. What could be the reason for this new subdivision of Eagle-Hawk and Crow, and for this multiplication of marriage prohibitions, which, given the phratries, prohibit nothing?[22] I shall try to show, and have already suggested, that, from a period infinitely remote, each member of the Eagle-Hawk and Crow _local_ groups may also have been, or rather _must_ have been, a grub, emu, mouse, or frog, bat, rat, cat, or kangaroo, by inheritance and birth. So understood, the ‘primary divisions’ (Eagle-Hawk and Crow) were not deliberately subdivided (as I conceive them to have been on Mr. Ho wit Vs system) into the other numerous new totem groups, nor were the totem kins added to the phratries, nor were they orderly evolved out of the phratries, but, from the dawn of Totemism with exogamy, they contained these totem groups within themselves; a fact which early man came to perceive. Mr. Howitt adds, ‘If the two first intermarrying groups’ (‘phratries’) ‘had distinguished names, they were probably those of animals, and their totems, and, if so, the origin of Totemism would be so far back in the mist of ages, as to be beyond my vision.’ In the chapter on the ‘Origin of Totemism,’ we try to penetrate ‘the mist of ages,’ and to see beyond the range of vision of Mr. Howitt. But the ‘Origin of Totemism’ cannot be beyond Mr. Howitt’s range of vision, if he agrees with Mr. Fison that the totem kins were orderly evolved within the phratry, or were segmented out of the phratry, or split off, as colonies, from the phratry (Dr. Durkheim’s theory), or were added to the phratry, for some reason.