Where then is the sense of calling the perfectibility of man as used by modern philosophers to be mere words without a meaning, that is mere nonsense. From Wordnik.com. [The Thirsty Theologian] Reference
The test of his perfectibility is at hand. From Wordnik.com. [John Steinbeck - Banquet Speech] Reference
Hogg laughed at him for his belief in the 'perfectibility' of the race, but Hogg knew the belief was vital to the poet. From Wordnik.com. [Recent Developments in European Thought] Reference
Malthus argues that 'perfectibility' gives an impossible end because equality would lead to vice and misery. From Wordnik.com. [The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill] Reference
"perfectibility," which rests on much less impressive evidence. From Wordnik.com. [The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth] Reference
Nature of the real perfectibility of man illustrated. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay on the Principle of Population] Reference
CASTELLANOS: This is not just an issue of human perfectibility. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 8, 2008] Reference
This is the spirituality of Shelley, the perfectibility of man. From Wordnik.com. [Twilight in Italy] Reference
To that end, he preached the perfectibility of the white majority. From Wordnik.com. [Leonce Gaiter: At Obama's Rise, Praise King's Movement, and Bury It] Reference
They have based on faith the infinite perfectibility of conscience. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
Condorcet foresaw an infinite perfectibility in human institutions. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
He did not harbor the modern reformers notion of human perfectibility. From Wordnik.com. [Patriarch: George Washington and the New American Nation] Reference
Perón, Juan per capita percent percussion per diem perfectibility of man. From Wordnik.com. [Entry Index: operating system to Pikes Peak] Reference
I come in: the best of all possible worlds, the perfectibility of mankind. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 3, 2002] Reference
It's the kind of thing that makes believe in the perfectibility of human life. From Wordnik.com. [Aaron Freeman: First They Came for Our Foie Gras...] Reference
Americans believe, Tocqueville noted, in "the indefinite perfectibility of man.". From Wordnik.com. [Book Excerpt: 'Untruth: Why The Conventional Wisdom Is (Almost Always) Wrong'] Reference
In his view human perfectibility was a chimera, human population in - crease inexorable. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Take it from Tocqueville: Americans "have all a lively faith in the perfectibility of man.". From Wordnik.com. [Unbreakable Sports Records] Reference
Efforts to achieve the abstraction of national perfectibility can prove a dicey proposition. From Wordnik.com. [Obama's Dour Vision] Reference
His perfectibility or corruptibility is closely bound up with this distin - guishing feature. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Whether “perfectibility” could be extended to other spheres of social life was not so clear. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Since it is obliged to remain thus circumscribed, it is easy to foresee the limit of perfectibility. From Wordnik.com. [The Mind of the Artist Thoughts and Sayings of Painters and Sculptors on Their Art] Reference
Herzog simultaneously mocked the perfectibility of man, while exulting in his endless dreams and visions. From Wordnik.com. [The Holy Mythmaker] Reference
To assert the perfectibility of man is now to maintain, as Robert Owen put it in his Book of the New Moral. From Wordnik.com. [PERFECTIBILITY OF MAN] Reference
Where are now your words and promises; the equality, perfectibility, and universal happiness of the human race?. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
He could not foresee any real environmental limitations on either the numbers of man or his individual perfectibility. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Such an attitude is based upon a faith in the perfectibility of man and the possibility of the regeneration of society. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction to Non-Violence] Reference
As he is more optimistic than Turgot about the inevi - tability of perfectibility, so Condorcet rejects myth even more. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
The real difference between a liberal and a conservative is that the liberal is optimistic about the perfectibility of man. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 8, 2001] Reference
The concept of perfectibility is parasitic upon the concept of perfection: to be perfectible is to be capable of being perfected. From Wordnik.com. [PERFECTIBILITY OF MAN] Reference
Darwinian advocates of human perfectibility, they believed that man has the capacity to surpass himself and to become a new species. From Wordnik.com. [EVOLUTIONISM] Reference
For "Moby-Dick" refuses, bravely, both the idea of human perfectibility and the notion that truth can be either absolute or reachable. From Wordnik.com. ['Moby-Dick': Into the Wonder-World, Audaciously] Reference
Fervent belief in the perfectibility of man – these days we call it "self-help" – is one of our more embarrassing national traits. From Wordnik.com. [Advice for Unmarried Men Clogs Critic's Toothless Novel] Reference
I assure you, ladies, that we sometimes find ourselves in company which enables us to believe in the perfectibility of the human species. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859] Reference
The true explanation is, that they have survived their first passion, and that their faith is somewhat shaken in the boyish creed of the absolute perfectibility of woman. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
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