backwards

“’Tis nothing, nothing; it will soon pass away”—and as he said so the old man’s strength failed him, and he fell backwards.

As I watched him I was irresistibly reminded of a pure-blooded well-trained foxhound as it dashes backwards and forwards through the covert, whining in its eagerness, until it comes across the lost scent.

In solving a problem of this sort, the grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.

This power is what I mean when I talk of reasoning backwards, or analytically.”