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And thus also it may indicate that from this wider range of remembered facts dream-inferences have been drawn;—which inferences may be retrospective, prospective, or,—if I may use a word of Pope's with a new meaning, circumspective,—that is to say, relating not to the past or to the future, but to the present condition of matters beyond the range of ordinary perception.

Females with young have ample cause for their circumspective demeanor toward adult males, which are especially inclined to eat the newborn.

We have studied them somewhat in the circumspective way, and will devote a few pages to our theory about them.

While he is retrospective and circumspective he is also prospective—he is a man of the far-look-ahead type.

A brow austere, a circumspective eye.