From For the Hearts

The following list, therefore, must be regarded as purely tentative, and liable to correction in the light of fuller information. Nevertheless we find some sporadic and tentative critical efforts or questions. Tentative attempts at export duties have also been made. Again, certain inferences have been tentatively made from the depth of mud, earth, peat, &c., which has accumulated above relics of human art imbedded in ancient times. After a number of tentative plans, he resolved in 1695 to institute what is often called a “ragged school”, supported by public charity. The final result of these tentative reviews records, in what is blurred and what is clear, the attention that has been distributed to different parts, and to parts measured against the whole. But all such general tables are as yet but tentative and provisional. His rule was distinguished by numerous tentative reforms in the fiscal and administrative systems. In this first group Socrates is dealing tentatively with single ethical notions. There is nothing tentative or hesitating. To this question Plato’s answer was vague and tentative. But the general result of such reconstructions is tentative. It was a tentative measure, and proved of no value.

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