fun fact, he finished it (The Phenomenology of Spirit) the day that the french entered and looted his Town (Jena) right before the Battle of Jena-Auerstedt that would happend the next morning and then send his only manuscript in the middle of this Mayham , where he also saw napoleon riding around.

“I saw the Emperor – this world-soul [Weltseele] – riding out of the city on reconnaissance. It is indeed a wonderful sensation to see such an individual, who, concentrated here at a single point, astride a horse, reaches out over the world and masters it.”