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Peterson told me that white adopters of young Native Americans in the American South were following Thomas Jefferson’s ideas about the influence of environment and the improvability of Native people.

From Slate • Apr. 29, 2016

Ms. Nasar introduces us to Alfred Marshall, whose own metamorphosis from scholarship boy to Cambridge don informed his “optimism about the improvability of man and his circumstances.”

From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2011

Very early in the history of horticulture the apple attracted attention by its improvability, showing that it belonged to the class of culture-plants.

From American Pomology Apples by Warder, J. A.

One of the questions, you know, on which our parties took different sides, was on the improvability of the human mind, in science, in ethics, in government, &c.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson

In my own behalf, I rejoice that I could once think better of the world's improvability than it deserved.

From The Blithedale Romance by Hawthorne, Nathaniel