[25] See the _Transactions of the Congress_ (Oxford University Press), vol. i. p. 121 foll. M. Reinach had alleged that the gens Fabia was originally a totem clan, _Mythes et cultes_, i. p. 47. [26] Marett, _On the Threshold of Religion_, p. 137 foll. "In _taboo_ the mystic thing is not to be lightly approached (negative aspect); _qua mana_, it is instinct with mystic power (positive aspect)": so Mr. Marett states the distinction in a private letter. [27] _Evolution of Religion_, p. 94. [28] _Introduction_, ch. viii.; Westermarck, _Origin and Development of Ethical Ideas_, i. 233 foll. [29] See a paper by the author in the _Transactions of the Congress of the History of Religions_, 1908, ii. 169 foll. [30] Macrobius, _Sat._ i. 16. 36; De Marchi, _La Religione nella vita domestica_, i. p. 169 foll.; Samter, _Familienfeste der Griechen und Roemer,_ p. 62 foll., where the _dies lustricus_ is compared with the Greek [Greek: amphidromia]. Unfortunately the details of the Roman rite are unknown to us, which seems to indicate that the primitive or magical character of it had disappeared. Van Gennep, _op. cit._ ch. v., reviews and classifies our present knowledge of this kind of rite. See also Crawley, _Mystic Rose_, p. 435 foll. [31] Crawley, _op. cit._ p. 436; Frazer, _G.B._ i. 403 foll. From this point of view Roman names need a closer examination than they have yet received. See, however, Marquardt, _Privatleben der Roemer_, pp. 10 and 81, and Mommsen, _Roem. Forschungen_, i. 1 foll. Marquardt must be wrong in stating (p. 10) that only the _praenomen_ was given on the _dies lustricus_; children dying before that day usually, as he says on p. 82 note, have no name in inscriptions, and that ceremony must surely have introduced the child to the gens of its parents. Certainly that introduction had not to wait till the _toga virilis_ was taken; though Tertull. _de Idol._ 16 looks at first a little like it. The same statement is made in the _Dict. of Antiq., s.v._ "nomen." Macr. _Sat._ i. 16. 36, and Fest. 120, simply speak of _nomen_. [32] Fowler, _R.F._ p. 56; De Marchi, _op. cit._ p. 176. For the primitive ideas about puberty, Crawley, _Mystic Rose_, ch. xiii. The idea of the Romans seems to have been simply that the child, who had so far needed special protection from evil influences (of what kind in particular it is impossible to say) by purple-striped toga and amulet (see below, p. 60), was now entering a stage when these were no longer needed. All notions of taboo seem to have vanished. [33] Marquardt, _Privataltertuemer_, p. 337 foll.