winged the midway air, showed gross as beeties, and their
cry was seldom even audible. Fichte's opinions may be
true or false ; but his character as a thinker can only be
slightly valued by those who know it ill ; and as a man
approved by action and sufferings, in his life and in his
death, he ranks with a class of men who were common only
in better ages than ours.' *

> Carlyle.
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CHAPTER XL

HEGEL.
George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was bom at

Stutgard on August 27, 1770. In his eighteenth year he
entered the University of Tubingen as a theological
student Here he attracted no particular attention. It
-was the youthful Schelling — five years younger than him-
self — ^who outshone him as well as all other contemporaries.
