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tact between their minds would be impossible, and with that, all life together'
(ibid.: 30). Yet even here Durkheim goes beyond the payofffor society to the payoff
for the individual: 'A man who did not think with concepts would not be a
man, for he would not be a social being' (ibid.: 487). Socialization itself becomes
an individual need as pressing as any other. There is nothing so deep in Radcliffe­
Brown.
Finally, Durkheim considers issues that transcend Radcliffe-Brown's orbit altogether:
religion as true (see ibid.: 14-15, 256-7)40 and religion as eternal (see
ibid.: 474-5). Where Radcliffe-Brown confines himself to the social function of
'primitive' religion, Durkheim contemplates the origin, content, and truth as well
as function of religion -of all religion. The Durkheim that Radcliffe-Brown brings
to Britain is a truncated Durkheim.
40 By contrast, Radcliffe-Brown professes professional neutrality on the issue: see Radcliffe-Brown
1952: 154; 1957: 117-18.
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