Jack went to and fro with his merry whistle; speculativehe might be, but he was not introspective or morbid: wife and mother watched at home.
If I stood in that man's place"-- Jack went homeward in a curiously speculative mood.
It was as forcible as ever in expression and colour, but that look which had often repelled him in his first acquaintance with her, as of a hard speculative eagerness more like the ardent boy than the woman, had very much disappeared.
This he calls regulative truth, as opposed to speculative truth.
To offer theology for religion, belief for faith, philosophy born of speculative reflection in place of spiritual insight and pious experience, have always been most deleterious both to religion and to philosophy.
They were dauntlessly brave, fantastically chivalrous, keenly sensitive to the appeal of poetry, of music, and of speculative thought.
Let it be remembered that in the early Middle Ages Celts from Ireland were the most notable explorers, the most notable pioneers of religion, science, and speculative thought in Europe.
The spectacle of the universe with all its vast and mysterious phenomena in heaven and on earth has aroused, first the imagination, afterwards the speculative reason, in every people which is capable of either.
It is hoped that we are not always to be tried by our speculative opinions, for man is frequently constituted higher and better than the principles he sometimes adopts.
The scale of tillage might range from a few score acres to a thousand or two; the expanse of unused land need have no limit but those of the proprietor's purse and his speculative proclivity.
This tulip business is, I believe, the only speculative excitement in history whose subject-matter did not even claim to have any real value.
It will be seen from the date that it was a very important era inspeculative philosophy.
And as events proved, this led to the neglect of the law and the dogmatic establishment of speculative theories as the basis of a new religion.
At present neither the speculative public nor would-be emigrants have grasped the position, and therefore Lane would get little if he realized on his stolen lands just now.
Holders are getting out as fast as they can, and various speculative gentlemen who have been waiting for the first sign of weakness are hammering them.
The Eastern question became in the snow-choked hills of New England the engrossing concern of this speculative mind, and he was apt to spring it upon Mrs. Durgin and Cynthia at mealtimes and other defenceless moments.
He had brought two or three books with him, and sometimes he read from one of them; or he talked with Whitwell on some of the questions of life and death that engaged his speculative mind.
We find abstract and speculative ideas in all those Egyptian books which have come down to us, in a form which betrays the last two centuries of the Empire.
Doctrine did not condemn these personifications, even when it had been refined and elaborated by the speculative theologians of Thebes and Heliopolis.
Smith became a member of the famous Speculative Society.
To Bichat was largely due the overthrow of purely speculative medicine because he placed facts far in advance of theories and ideas.
This work was on the "three fold minimum and measurement, being the elements of three speculative and several practical sciences.
His charge in brief was that they mistook the shadow for the substance; a charge even yet too commonly justified among the strongholds of theology and other speculative dogmas.
To the speculative philosopher death may have a different significance, and one not altogether included in that given to it by the physiologist.
There are yet, even at this day, manyspeculative objections to this theory.
That is, perhaps, the only instance in human history of that positive, original social compact, which speculative philosophers have imagined as the only legitimate source of government.
It is a common amusement of speculative minds to contrast the magnitude of the most important events with the minuteness of their primeval causes, and the records of mankind are full of examples for such contemplations.
Boehme always professed that a direct inward opening or illumination was the only source of his speculative power.
In such a record as the present, which mixes up the grossest speculative absurdities with every degree of what is better, an instance of another kind may find an appropriate place.
A railroad's business depends upon the actual development of a country, not upon backing promoters who open up a new country simply as a speculative proposition.
The speculative instinct will, therefore, not counteract the social instinct; it will rather fortify it, and human disinterestedness generally, for speculation itself is the most disinterested act of the mental life.
The speculative spirit is the extreme opposite both of the spirit of faith and of the spirit of absolute negation.
Parallel to the development of conscience and of speculative intelligence there goes always a development of our moral activity.
Speculative disinterestedness is altogether lacking in animals and savages; they live locked in the arms of sensation and desire; they spontaneously draw a circle about their ego, and whatsoever lies beyond lies beyond their intelligence.
And the practical side of human life has nothing to fear from the growth of the speculative spirit.
To speculative minds, on the other hand, belongs the future of humanity; but far from being dependent upon dogma, speculation can flourish only in its absence.
It is this spirit which is at once speculative and religious, in the true sense of the word, that it is important, accordingly, to elicit, and that wholly without dogmatical or polemical aim of any kind.
But speculative thought will always justify social instinct, even considered purely from the scientific and positive point of view.
He paused and fixed a speculativeeye on Bill Lightfoot.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "speculative" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
