About the Book: The History of Philosophy Volume-I (Ancient Philosophy)
This edition is separated from its predecessors, as if it a new work which
indeed in many respects it is the first edition appeared in 1845-6 in four
pocket-volumes; addressed to the general public rather than to well-read
students, it had no pretension to the completeness or erudition displayed in
many other histories, being little more than a rapid survey of the course of
metaphysical speculation, written with the avowed purpose of dissuading the
youth of England from wasting energy on insoluble problems and relying on a
false method. With this object of turning the mind