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The sense I have - and I knew next to nothing about it before working on this article - is that Hegel saw the world-historical figure as appearing when the time was ripe, expressing the mind-spirit of the time. The figure has huge impact, but is bound to appear. The "representative man" idea is from
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Muhammad in the lede rather than Jesus, its good to be aware that Jesus is not principally a historical figure, the
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at the front of this list but I have just removed this for several reasons. One is that the choice might be controversial and I don't want the article to be politicised. Another is that we don't want the lead to turn into a top ten, in which everyone's favourites jostle for attention. A third is
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And, for a change, a DYK article looks like it's both of a good size and fully-expanded. So many DYK articles are just barely long enough to qualify, and clearly incomplete, that this is a welcome change. Well done, everybody!
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