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  • Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Perfectibility is not possible, but people have the power to dream of a perfect world, inhabited by their version of what it is to be perfectly human.

    Archive 2008-08-01 David Hadley 2008

  • Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Perfectibility is not possible, but people have the power to dream of a perfect world, inhabited by their version of what it is to be perfectly human.

    Dream Of A Perfect World David Hadley 2008

  • Our great dream of democracy and the Perfectibility of Man will take a giant step backward as we settle for less.

    Madame Jane predicts: The Fall of the House of Bush 2006

  • The book I read several years ago that inspired me with a sense of fury that nobody had told me to read it before, since it is so much exactly the kind of thing I love and need to read in order to work out the things I think about in my academic writing: John Passmore, The Perfectibility of Man.

    Fifteen things about books Jenny Davidson 2005

  • The book I read several years ago that inspired me with a sense of fury that nobody had told me to read it before, since it is so much exactly the kind of thing I love and need to read in order to work out the things I think about in my academic writing: John Passmore, The Perfectibility of Man.

    Archive 2005-12-01 Jenny Davidson 2005

  • Their central theme is the Pre-existence and Perfectibility of the soul.

    The Life Radiant Lilian Whiting

  • Now it is a Perfectibility lying in the future; now a

    Appearances Being Notes of Travel 1897

  • Perfectibility, as expounded by Condorcet and Godwin, encountered a drastic criticism from Malthus, whose Essay on the Principle of

    The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth 1894

  • Vauvenargues holds the balance between him and the votaries of Perfectibility 4

    Critical Miscellanies (Vol 2 of 3) Essay 1: Vauvenargues John Morley 1880

  • Central Asia insensibly to disappear, lest by their cheerless presence they should destroy the unity and harmony of the transformation scene in the great drama of Perfectibility.

    Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Essay 3: Condorcet John Morley 1880

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