Hegel is unironically too high IQ for this board. He wrote in a letter prior to being a professor,

>You know that I have had too much to do not merely with ancient literature, but even with mathematics, latterly with the higher analysis, differential calculus, to let myself be taken in by the humbug of Natural Philosophy, philosophising without knowledge of fact and merely by force of imagination, treating mere fancies, even imbecile fancies, as Ideas.

Contrast with Schopenhauer