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WILLIAM WALLACE (1844-1897)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 278 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM See also:WALLACE (1844-1897)  , Scottish philosopher, was See also:born at See also:Cupar-See also:Fife on the 11th of May 1844, the son of a See also:house-builder . Between the ages of sixteen and twenty-two he was educated at St See also:Andrews, whence he proceeded as an exhibitioner in 1864 to Balliol See also:College, See also:Oxford . He took a first class in Moderations, and in Lit . Hum . (1867), was See also:Gaisford prizeman in 1867 (See also:Greek See also:prose) and See also:Craven See also:Scholar in 1869 . Three years later he was appointed See also:fellow, and in 1871 librarian, of Merton College . In 1882 he was elected See also:Whyte's See also:professor of moral See also:philosophy in See also:succession to T . H . See also:Green, and retained the position until his See also:death . He died on the 18th of See also:February 1897 from the effects of a See also:bicycle See also:accident near Oxford . His manner was some-what brusque and sarcastic, and on this See also:account, in his under-See also: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 . 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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Hegel he was, unlike many other writers, successful in expressing himself in a lucid literary manner, without artificial and incomprehensible terminology . His See also:principal works were The See also: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 See also: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 See also:Caird . He wrote several important articles for the 9th edition of the Ency . Brit., which, with some re-See also: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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