The review of my past life, especially the retrospect of the last two years, has at last quite startled me, and at the same time disgusted me."

And again:"A theory of the earth, which has for object truth, can have no retrospect to that which had preceded the present order of the world; for this order alone is what we have to reason upon; and to reason without data is nothing but delusion.

A RETROSPECT ON LAISSEZ-FAIRE §2. IDEAS AND INSTITUTIONS §3.

And so he came in retrospect in due time to the moment when he had come to the porch and had looked in through the window to take his last farewell of her; when he had seen her standing at Gratton's side.

Let no one dismiss the foregoing retrospect as merely ancient history.

It seems in retrospect like a beautiful dream.

If the principiant view of the forces which control the history of philosophy, and of the progress of modern philosophy, expressed in the Introduction and in the Retrospect at the end of the book, have not been everywhere verified in detail from the historical facts, this is due in part to the limits, in part to the pedagogical aim, of the work.

why" But Mrs. Tucker interrupted what might have been an inopportune sentimental retrospect with a finger of arch but languid warning.