Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c16.76

c16.76

As regards the merits of this analysis of the sources of valid knowledge, the following remarks of Max Müller are very appropriate [*Six Systems*, p. 374]: "It seems to me highly creditable to Indian Philosophers that they should have understood the necessity of such an analysis on the very threshold of any system of philosophy. How many misunderstandings might have been avoided if all philosophers had recognized the necessity of such an introductory chapter? If we must depend for all our knowledge, first on our senses, then on our combinatory and reasoning faculties, the question whether Revelation falls under the one or the other, or whether it can claim an independent authority can far more easily be settled than if such questions are not asked *in limine*, but turn up casually whenever transcendental problems come to be treated."