SOURCE: A review of A History of Indian Philosophy, in the Hibbert Journal, Vol. 20, No. 80, 1922, pp. 796-99.

In the following essay, a review of the first volume in A History of Indian Philosophy, Thomas examines ways in which Dasgupta offers fresh insights on an ancient subject.

The outlines of the chief Indian systems have been for now about a century accessible to European readers in the essays of the great scholar Colebrooke. It may be said that even to-day it is hardly necessary to seek such outlines in any other quarter. For an acquaintance with the Indian manner of discussing philosophical questions we may refer to a delightful group of writings which are now generally neglected. These are works of Christian apologists, contending on more or less equal terms with Indian disputants. These apologists—they belonged to the middle of the nineteenth century—were men of sound philosophic...