SOURCE: A review of Yoga as Philosophy and Religion, in International Journal of Ethics, Vol. 35, No. 3, April, 1925, p. 324.

In the following essay, a review of Yoga as Philosophy and Religion, Thomas offers a brief explanation of Yoga's place in relation to the Sankhya philosophy, and to Charles Darwin's evolutionary theory.

Although the philosophy expounded in this book [Yoga As Philosophy and Religion] is the one Indian system that has real parallels with modern scientific thought, there has never been any adequate treatment of it in English apart from the author's previous studies. Even the term Yoga is generally understood rather in its application to Vedantic pantheism. Metaphysically the Yoga and Sankhya philosophies are only two different modifications of one common system of ideas, and the work involves a discussion of both. It may at first sight seem strange that the atheistic Sankhya, and the Yoga that makes devotion...