The focus was on the limits of perfectability in an inherently risky operation.    From Wordnik.com.  [NASA Watch: Keith Cowing: April 2003 Archives] Reference

According to Augustine, Pelagius believed in the perfectability of human nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Firedoglake » Image May Not Be Everything….] Reference

These constraints cannot be external, for those who believe in the moral perfectability of mankind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2004-07-01] Reference

He was a transcendentalist of the extreme order, and a believer in the perfectability of human nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction] Reference

The perfectability of humans is the basic message of Star Trek, more so than any other particular theme.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » The Trouble With Standing Athwart History] Reference

In all aspects, they emphasized reason and frequently embraced notions of the perfectability of people and progress.    From Wordnik.com.  [b. Intellectual Developments] Reference

The whole notion of perfectability--or of the inevitable human departure from that state--really didn't enter into the equation.    From Wordnik.com.  [That sin's not very original . . .] Reference

The problem for Castro, and for the moral perfectability project, is that they really want humans to be otherwise; not better—different.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2004-07-01] Reference

Jan. 29th, 2003 at 1:03 PM marypcb and I have a long running philosophical discussion, over the possibility of the perfectability of mankind.    From Wordnik.com.  [More uses for RSS: monitoring software company download sites] Reference

In fact, Orwell, like Swift, begins by satirizing the idea of human perfectability: his remarks on "Wells, Hitler and the World State" may be quoted here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stone Pastorals: Three Men on the Side of the Horses] Reference

You can imagine what a horror it would be to someone like Zweig, believing in the intrinsic value and perfectability of mankind, to end up persecuted by someone like Hitler.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stefan Zweig « Tales from the Reading Room] Reference

The opposite - your Kants, Hegels, Voltaires and Nietzsches, those who argue the perfectability of Man, the fools - that is the road to darkness and chaos and that's where we're now headed, inch by inch.    From Wordnik.com.  [[reason and enlightenment] the greatest joke perpetrated on man] Reference

Socialism is the belief in the perfectability of man: as evidenced by the commenter who said "show me a Conservative right paradise in any part of our planet earth and I will accept your claim with an open heart".    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

But, historically, those who believed in the perfectability of our nation (Add: more precisely, our ability to improve, become more just, adapt to changing circumstances) have been right far more often than they've been wrong.    From Wordnik.com.  [More on Patriotism - Swampland - TIME.com] Reference

I've never bought the humanist line on human perfectability — I can't sing "Wonders still the world shall witness" without wanting to laugh — but I think there are liberal ways to acknowledge limits on human perfectability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philocrites: August 2003 Archives] Reference

Nor is the doctrine of perfectability anywhere one with itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marse Henry (Volume 1) An Autobiography] Reference

Seen one way, it's an inspiring parable of human perfectability.    From Wordnik.com.  [GreenCine Daily] Reference

The era of perfectability is far from singular in its focus on women's bodies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest news from the public and voluntary sectors, including health, children, local government and social care, plus SocietyGuardian jobs | guardian.co.uk] Reference

America is not perfect, but we have driven a steady path towards perfectability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Waldo's Virginia Political Blogroll] Reference

An incorrigible mankind hardens its heart in the progress of its own perfectability.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of the Sea] Reference

Corporeal attributes and necessities are thrown on one side, as they would destroy the charm of perfectability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Olla Podrida] Reference

Ah, but they were very idealistic, those early feminists, believing in the perfectability of society and human beings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

The man who has learned the Fifth Secret of Rache Churan -- who has learned how to control his will -- holds a power absolute and beyond perfectability.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Scorpion] Reference

I am also willing to go along with the notion that both groups have a rather utopian worldview about the perfectability of human nature, which is at odds with a conservative worldview.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe] Reference

United States, he decried fanatic dogmatism and espoused essentially Unitarian views on truth, tolerance, freedom of the individual conscience, freedom of thought, and human perfectability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Klas Pontus Arnoldson - Biography] Reference

So wofully unorganized is sociological knowledge that the meaning of progress, the meaning of "swift" and "slow" in human doing, and the limits of human perfectability, are veiled, unanswered sphinxes on the shores of science.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Souls of Black Folk] Reference

He had noticed in his circle many an otherwise promising union result in disappointment and dismay, purely in consequence of the false estimate formed by bride or bridegroom concerning the imagined perfectability of the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Men on the Bummel] Reference

And the whole is crowned by pure trust and natural confidence in the progress and perfectability of human nature, which he exalts instead of degrading; this he holds to be the foundation stone of society and indeed the very purpose of its existence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arabian nights. English] Reference

As I'm sure you know, the original neo-cons were people who had been on the left at some point in the past, then switched over to the right, combining a hawkish foreign policy outlook with some sort of residual left-wing view of the perfectability of society.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

M) Styles of dress follow people's differing views of human perfectability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing] Reference

I think that what she likes to say is that man is always in seachof perfectability and he will not find that because one mans need maybe another ones poison scatterbrain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas | Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast] Reference

Lord T believes that technology will bring us to a state of near perfectability, with his nanobot helpers and lateral technological solutions to mankind’s greatest dilemmas and in this, he has no argument from me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference

All readers believe in human perfectability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philocrites: July 2003 Archives] Reference

She believes in the perfectability of humanity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Catspaw]