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See also: born at See also: Cupar-Fife on the 11th of May 1844, the son of a See also: house-builder
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Between the ages of sixteen and twenty-two he was educated at St Andrews, whence he proceeded as an exhibitioner in 1864 to Balliol See also: College, See also: Oxford
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He took a first class in Moderations, and in Lit
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(1867), was See also: Gaisford prizeman in 1867 (See also: Greek See also: prose) and Craven See also: Scholar in 1869
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Three years later he was appointed See also: fellow, and in 1871 librarian, of Merton College
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In 1882 he was elected See also: Whyte's professor of moral philosophy in succession to T
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See also: Green, and retained the position until his See also: death
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He died on the 18th of See also: February 1897 from the effects of a bicycle accident near Oxford
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His manner was some-what brusque and sarcastic, and on this account, in his under-graduate days at Balliol, he was known as The Dorian." But he was greatly respected both as a See also: man and as a lecturer
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His philosophical See also: works are almost entirely devoted to See also: German, and especially to Hegelian, doctrines, which he expounded and criticized with See also: great clearness and See also: literary skill
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In dealing with Hegel he was, unlike many other writers, successful in expressing himself in a lucid literary manner, without artificial and incomprehensible terminology . HisSee also: principal works were The Logic of Hegel (1873), which contains a See also: translation of the Encyklopddie with an introduction, a second edition of which, with a See also: volume entitled Prolegomena, appeared in 1892; Epicureanism (1880); See also: Kant (See also: Blackwood's Philosophical See also: Classics, 1882) ; See also: Life of Arthur See also: Schopenhauer (1890) ; Hegel's Philosophy of Mind (translated from the Encyklopadie, with five See also: introductory essays) ; Lectures and Essays on Natural See also: Theology and See also: Ethics, being a selection from his papers edited with a See also: biographical introduction by See also: Edward Caird
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He wrote several important articles for the 9th edition of the Ency
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Brit., which, with some re-vision, have been repeated in the See also: present See also: work
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William Wallace married Janet Barclay, April 4, 1872 in Cupar, Fife William and Janet are buried in Holywell cemetery, Oxford They had three children, Isabella, William James Lindsay, and Moray
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