But he had an inquiring mind, and a singularly early turn for metaphysical speculation.

Shelley's bias toward metaphysical speculation was beginning to assert itself.

Thereby they had been inspired to their finest art and their most profound metaphysical speculation.

They explored the world of metaphysical speculation.

This faint reaction is no doubt a sign of a deeper change impending in philosophic and metaphysical speculation.

An unlikely mix of social realism and metaphysical speculation is synthesised in something peculiarly powerful and vaguely prophetic.

Some strive, by direct intellectual abstraction and effort, by metaphysical speculation, to grasp the true principles of being.

Immediately after a passage which approaches as near to metaphysical speculation as any Old Testament writer ever approaches, viii.

And that," he added to Balthamos, "is the point of all this metaphysical speculation, as you called it."

In our review of these dogmatic questions, we have met with a novel tendency, that to metaphysical speculation and dialectic.

In fact, if I am pushed, metaphysical speculation lands me exactly where your friend Raphael was when his bitch pupped.

But, the nature of the film means that it lends itself to all sorts of metaphysical digressions, or metaphysical speculation, let's say.

This common ground is not necessarily-oneis reluctant to introduce metaphysical speculation-anyhidden "law of beauty" or "principle of spiritual harmony."

You refer, of course, to the extraordinary occurrences that made that period of his life long after a theme for "winter tales" and metaphysical speculation.

The science constitutes the foundation, and the philosophy, the metaphysical speculations, which rest thereon.

They were less distinguished by metaphysical speculations than by simple meditations and moral practices.