SOURCE: A review of Yoga Philosophy in Relation to Other Systems of Indian Thought, in Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 28, No. 4, February 12, 1931, pp. 106-07.

In the following essay, Pratt gives Yoga Philosophy a generally favorable review, but faults Dasgupta for an occasional tendency to blur distinctions between eastern and western systems of thought.

Dr. Dasgupta, Professor of Philosophy in Presidency College, Calcutta, and at one time Lecturer in the University of Cambridge, is known in this country partly through his visit and his lectures here in 1926, partly from his books, particularly his semi-popular Hindu Mysticism and his learned History of Indian Philosophy. The volume under review [ Yoga Philosophy in Relation to Other Systems of Indian Thought], though published in 1930, was the first of Professor Dasgupta's books to be written, having been prepared eleven years ago as his doctor's thesis for the University of Calcutta. Chapter VII of his History...