perfectibility of man
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The American people have an instinctive faith in the perfectibility of man.
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When the perfectibility of man is a national theology, imperfection is unendurable.
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To Condorcet's comfortable belief "that the perfectibility of man is truly limitless," Adams retorted skeptically: "Will man ever be free from disease, vice, and death?"
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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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They talk of the perfectibility of man and of the dignity of his nature; and, entirely forgetting what he is, declaim perpetually about what he should be.”
From Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII by John Austin Stevens
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