- SPECULATIVE, THE
- that which we think and which as such goes no deeper than the intellect, which is but the eye of the soul, not the heart of it.See SPIRITUAL, THE.
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
SPECULATIVE, THE
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