PREFACE
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interest is left untouched, and still more only very roughly
sketched in. This work has no pretensions, to completeness
in any sense of the term. It attempts to give such a general
statement of the main results as shall serve to introduce
the subject to those to whom it may not be known, and
awaken if possibJe in some measure that interest for it to
which it is so justly entitled. Even if it proves a failure,
it may assist or at least encourage other attempts.
My original plan was to publish the two volumes together.
Kind friends like Professor J. S. Mackenzie suggested to
me the desirability of bringing out the first volume immedi-
ately. Since the preparation of. the second volume would
take some time and the first is complete in itself, I venture
to 'publish it independently. A 0 characteristic feature of
many of the views discussed in this volume is that they
ate motived, not so much by the logical impulse to account
for the riddles of existence, as by the practical need for a
support in life. It has been difficult to avoid discussions
of, what' may appear to the reader, religious rather than
philosophical issues, on account of the very close connexion
between religion and philosophy in early Indian speculation.
The second volume, however, . will be of a more purely
philosophical character, since a predominantly theoretical
interest gets the upper hand in the dar
anas or 0 systems of
philosophy, though the intimate connexion between know-
ledge and life is not lost sight of.
It is a pleasure to acknowledge my obligations to the
many eminent orientalists whose works have been of great.
help to me in my studies. It is not possible to mention
all their names, which will be found in the course of the
book. Mention must, however, be made of Max Miiller,
Deussen, Keith, Jacobi, Garbe, Tilak, Bhandarkar, Rhys
Davids and Mrs. Rhys Davids, 01denber
, Poussin, Suzuki
and Sagen.