In McNeill's speculative essay, the Assyrians were forced to withdraw by disease, an event which in McNeill's opinion served to support Judaism's then-new monotheistic tradition.

The book, which he calls "a speculative essay," is acerbic in tone; hyperbolic when not hit-and-run; withal, an amusing and provocative tract.

This idealization of individual subjects is clearest in autobiographical accounts or case histories, but it is apparent in reports of interviews or group work, impressionistic observations, or speculative essays, too.

In 1921, for instance, H. G. Wells wrote "The Grisly Folk," a speculative essay and story about the meeting of modern humans and Neandertalers, as he called them.

JMMS papers address historical and contemporary phenomena as well as speculative essays about future spiritualities.

Depending on the culture, we may tell campfire stories or songs about beings from the stars, or write speculative essays, or publish works of adventure fiction involving outer space or alien contact.

Among his teachers was his father's friend Thomas Laycock (1812-1876) whose "magnum opus" Mind and Brain is an extended speculative essay on neurology and psychological life.

IN 1938, Johan Huizinga, the Dutch medieval historian, published a speculative essay called "Homo Ludens" - literally, "game playing man."

It functions less effectively as a show on its own than as as a speculative essay about "A Doll's House," a seminal work in modern literature about relations between men and women.

It was a speculative essay about its mechanism of action - about how it worked.