SOURCE: A review of A History of Indian Philosophy, in Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 29, No. 21, October 13, 1932, pp. 575-81.

In the following essay, written after the publication of volume two of A History of Indian Philosophy, Briggs provides an overview of both the first and the second volumes.

With the publication of volume two of this important History of Indian Philosophy, the second impression of the first appears. It is now ten years since Dr. Surendranath Dasgupta, Principal of the Sanskrit College in Calcutta, issued the first volume of this work. At once it took its place in the front rank of treatises on the history of Indian philosophy, a position which it still holds.

Volume One covers a good deal of the ground usually brought into view in an account of Indian philosophy, including, as it does, expositions of the philosophical ideas of the Vedas, the Brahmanas, and...