perfectibility of man
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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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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.
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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.
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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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Is it thus that are to be solved all our social problems, all our discussions upon the perfectibility of man, all our vague but obstinate prophecies of some more rational and happier scheme of existence?
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various
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