perfectibility of man
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The Yale production stressed the dichotomy between Old World awareness of the burdens of the past and New World faith in the perfectibility of man.
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When the perfectibility of man is a national theology, imperfection is unendurable.
From Time Magazine Archive
The graduates do not speak with a common voice but with common candor, sometimes naively and too glibly, often with a deep faith in the perfectibility of man.
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When in doubt, he radiates an unqualified trust in the natural goodness and perfectibility of man that makes such an early wishful-thinker as Rousseau look like a cynic.
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He found his old faith in the perfectibility of man renewed, and often he would keep his eyes closed for many minutes together, so that he could see the face of his dreams.
From The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)
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