Declaring that conscience was the most important difference between man and the lower animals, he speculated that "any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial affections being here included, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience, as soon as its intellectual powers had become as well, or nearly as well developed, as in man" (Ibid. 98).
If I harbored any delusions, he speculated, accurately, three times during our conversation that I was a "rank amateur".
Officials at both the White House and Fed said on Wednesday that there had been no last-minute reluctance or, as some on Wall Street had speculated, any intention to pressure the central bank into keeping interest rates low.
The Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, a group based in Florida, said it remained opposed to any nuclear systems in space and speculated that any new technology developed might be applied to military uses.
Since the chief accusation is that Mr. Verniero misled interrogators at his confirmation hearings for the bench, some senators have speculated that any charges could be attached to his term as a justice.
Critics have speculated without any proof that Ms. Sun's grandfather, a senior official in the decades after the Communists came to power, and another relative, a former vice mayor of Beijing, had made the problem go away.
The researchers speculated that any positive effects of homeopathic treatment might stem from the rapport that often develops between practitioner and patient.
He also speculated on any follow-ups mimicking the development cycle of Grand Theft Auto, with a new release expected every two to three years.
"At this point it seems impossible that Manafort will beat all, if any, of these charges," speculated Nicholas "Sawed Off McDougall, who's serving 12 years in federal prison also in Indiana for armed robbery.
We also speculated that any loss of contact between the two cell types would result in an inability of DCs to re-stimulate newly primed T cells recruited to granulomas.
