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perfectability, perfectibility  n.  The capability of becoming perfect; as, he believes in the ultimate perfectability of man; usually spelled perfectibility.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Perfectability" Quotes from Famous Books



... and art, in physics, in politics, in economics, and mechanics. And great as are its attainments at present, still, as I have said, we are far from being able to discern, even in the distance, the limit of its advancement and of its perfectibility. ...
— Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) • John Henry Newman

... same breath with Plato's Symposium[74] and the ideas expressed in Political Justice inspired him to write not merely Queen Mab but the Revolt of Islam and Prometheus Unbound. Godwin's plea for the freedom of the individual and his belief in the perfectibility of man through reason had a far-reaching effect that cannot be readily estimated, but, as his theories only concern us here in so far as they affect two of his novels, it is unnecessary to pursue the trail ...
— The Tale of Terror • Edith Birkhead

... people can never become corrupted,—a most barefaced assertion. Have not all nations suffered periods of corruption? This notion, that the whole people cannot err, opens the door for any license. It logically leads to that other idea, of the native majesty of man and the perfectibility of society, which this sophist boldly accepted. Rousseau thought that if society were released from all law and all restraint, the good impulses and good sense of the majority would produce a higher state of virtue and ...
— Beacon Lights of History, Volume XIII • John Lord

... a variable proportion exists in all industrial pursuits, between the effort and the result. Absolute imperfection consists in an infinite effort, without any result; absolute perfection in an unlimited result, without any effort; and perfectibility, in the progressive diminution of the effort, ...
— Sophisms of the Protectionists • Frederic Bastiat



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