perfectibility of man
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After a leading Catholic churchman described the devil to his radio audience, human progress and the early perfectibility of man were defended, by: 1.
From Time Magazine Archive
That conviction represents an amalgam of Puritanism, with its belief in a permanently flawed human nature, and the Enlightenment tradition, with its belief in the perfectibility of man.
From Time Magazine Archive
For a full hour and a quarter he sawed the air and pounded the pulpit in defense of human progress and the early perfectibility of man.
From Time Magazine Archive
When the perfectibility of man is a national theology, imperfection is unendurable.
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I have read some of the speculations on the perfectibility of man and of society with great pleasure.
From An Essay on the Principle of Population by Malthus, T. R. (Thomas Robert)
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