From For the Hearts

This, however, remains at best a conjecture. All this is mere conjecture. It is a reasonable conjecture that the tales of victories over Grendel and the fiery dragon belong properly to the myth of Beaw. Up to this period all was vague conjecture. The question of the origin of the bow still remains a matter of conjecture. It is a reasonable conjecture that this extraordinary relic of barbarism was characteristic of the earlier stratum of the population who presumably called themselves Arici. The origin of the problem is open to conjecture. The extent to which he was influenced by the Magi and the Eastern astrologists is a matter of pure conjecture. This conjecture, however, is extremely problematical. But all this is conjecture. We may conjecture what the world would have gained if he had found the full complement of his art in Heine. But this opinion has gone the way of other conjectures. This, however, is only a conjecture.

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