Word: shrewd
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Royce delivered the seventh lecture on the course on Modern Thinkers in Sanders Theatre last evening. The subject was Hegel. In character and life Hegel is perhaps the least imposing of the real first class thinkers. He was in nowise either graceful or heroic, but simply a selfseeking, laborious, shrewd, quarrelsome man, faithful to his office and to his flatterers, and proud of his barbaric style. As a boy he was pedantic and thoroughly objective. Yet even in the diary which he kept when he was fifteen years old there appear warnings of the deep delight he was later...