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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
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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.
Dream Of A Perfect World David Hadley 2008
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Our great dream of democracy and the Perfectibility of Man will take a giant step backward as we settle for less.
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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
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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
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Their central theme is the Pre-existence and Perfectibility of the soul.
The Life Radiant Lilian Whiting
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Now it is a Perfectibility lying in the future; now a
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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
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Vauvenargues holds the balance between him and the votaries of Perfectibility 4
Critical Miscellanies (Vol 2 of 3) Essay 1: Vauvenargues John Morley 1880
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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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