Based on the Geschichte der Philosophie this edition has continued to interest scholars due to the insight it affords into Hegel's view of the history of philosophy, for an understanding of his own theory, and in itself, as the first philosophical history of philosophy.

    Hume thought they intended an attack, and the horses had taken fright and galloped away. I determined, therefore, to fire at once upon them if they pressed up the bank on which we were posted. Mr. Hume went with me to the crest of it, and we rather angrily beckoned to the foremost of the natives to stop. They mistook our meaning, but laid all their spears in a heap as they came up. We then sat down on the bank and they immediately did the same; nor did they stir until we beckoned to them after the horses had been secured.