The Hindu Realism: Being an Introduction to the Metaphysics of the Nyaya-Vaisheshika System of Philosophy (Classic Reprint)

In the following pages 1have made an attempt to present the main metaphysical doctrines of two of the Hindu Schools of Philosophy, the Vaisheshika and the Nyaya, constituting what may be called Hindu Realism. The attempt has been made after I have tried, during my residence at Cambridge, to understand and assimilate the European attitude in matters philosophical and the European mode of philosophic thinking. I have not made any explicit comparison between the Realism, or any other phase, of European thinking and the Realism of the Hindus ;but I have always kept the European ideas and attitude before my mind, so as to make this presentation of Hindu Realism intelligible to the Western reader. Although written as early as 1824, and with insufficient material before him, yet the Essay of Colebrookej on the Nyaya-V aisheshika is still perhaps the best work on the subject in any European language. But excellent as the essay is, Colebrooke wrote it as a philologist more than a philosopher ;and I doubt very much if a Being my thesis written as an Advanced Student1 of the Cainbridge University. I ts publication has been greatly delayed as I have been wanting to add to it at least two more parts, namely, on the Sankhya and the Vedanta. But pressure of other duties has as yet left me no time to accomplish this although, in so far as the Sankhya is concerned, 1have done it partially in my Kashmir Slmivaism which is now in the press and will be very shortly published in the Kashmir Series of Texts and Studies edited by myself. R epublished in 1873 in Essays, Vol.
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