| 单词 | perfectibility |
| 例句 | Encoded in that molecule were the loci of human perfectibility and vulnerability: once we learned to manipulate this chemical, we would rewrite our nature. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z For Rousseau, because of man's "perfectibility", the passage from a natural state to a social one is both an accident and necessary. Rousseau shows us that there is a way to break the chains – from within 2012-07-15T08:00:01Z Gray, like his friend and mentor Isaiah Berlin, sets himself against all proponents of the grand idea – of progress, of perfectibility, of the right and only way to live. The Silence of Animals by John Gray – review 2013-02-15T10:20:01Z Tharp seems steeped in a belief in human perfectibility through simple, focused means. Twyla Tharp: The possibilities are endless 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z With its myth of endless progress, America has always embraced obsolescence and presumed the perfectibility of the future. A 21st-Century Renaissance for Ford Foundation Landmark 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z He was a firm believer in human perfectibility, which is one of the convictions that would put him on a collision course with Luther, committed to the incorrigible depravity of human nature. Erasmus vs. Luther — a Rift That Defined the Course of Western Civilization 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z For Tharp, movement is essential to this perfectibility. Twyla Tharp: The possibilities are endless 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z In that sense, her history is one for the age of Obama, a man who talks about the flaws of the United States but insists on the perfectibility of the Union. 'The Making of Asian America' is a stirring chronicle long overdue 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z This is where Coates obviously parts company with Obama, who campaigned on the very notion of hope and the perfectibility of America. Through the Lens of the Obama Years, Ta-Nehisi Coates Reckons With Race, Identity and Trump 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z The noun “parent” has become a verb as many people embrace the belief that perfectibility can be approximated if parents are sufficiently diligent about child-rearing. Opinion | Expensively credentialed, negligibly educated Stanford brats threw a tantrum 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z Perhaps most important, middle-class faith in freedom and perfectibility would inspire hopes for local and national reform, and feed opposition to freedom’s greatest enemy—human slavery. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z His chances of effective resistance have been steadily dwindling with the increasing perfectibility in the killing power of modern armament. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Technology holds out the promise of human perfectibility, but, as far as Ishiguro is concerned, it is a promise we must resist. Kazuo Ishiguro Sees What the Future Is Doing to Us 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z After spending five hellish weeks in his youthful prime helping to pry a nearly invisible island in the Pacific from Japanese defenders, Shultz was cured of illusions concerning perfectibility and ease. Opinion | George Shultz wasn’t perfect. But he understood the imperfect human condition. 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z Some see this as a triumph, progress towards the elimination of error and perfectibility. World Cup questions: what did Zidane's head-butt in Berlin mean? | Barney Ronay 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z The communitarian movement was an unusual but emblematic example of the era’s faith in the power of love and reason to remake society around the principle of human perfectibility. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z He dismisses the idea that “Enlightenment thinkers nurtured a naive belief in man’s perfectibility” as a “complete myth conjured up by early 20th-century scholars unsympathetic to its claims”. About time: why western philosophy can only teach us so much 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z It is also a story, though, that hews to a troubling belief in human perfectibility: a national makeover mentality about identity. Opinion | The Snake Oil of the Second-Act Industry 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z Progressives were empiricists, who believed in the perfectibility of man and society, and saw government as a positive force to accomplish that goal, unlike today's Republican Party. Opinion | We Used to Build Things 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z That was the lightning, the flash of hope, the promise of perfectibility. A Golden Age for Dystopian Fiction 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z Wealthy and well-educated colonists embraced the ideas of the European Enlightenment, which honored science and reason and stressed the perfectibility of human nature. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z “In American history, women have been perceived to reach their height of moral perfectibility when they’re pregnant and mothering,” Cramer said. Tabloids just give you what you want. So why do you want Jennifer Aniston to be pregnant? 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z Both believe in the perfectibility, if not of man, then of the international system. The arrow of history 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Progressives have unquestioned faith in the perfectibility of mankind. Camille Paglia: The Modern Campus Cannot Comprehend Evil 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z It also feeds right into the perfectibility concept that fuels such dangerous nonsense as the Genetic Virtue Project. Junk DNA, Junky PR 2012-09-17T23:45:02.920Z It babbles incoherently of perfectibility, and goes straightway to the bad. A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. 2012-04-23T02:00:29.820Z M. de Chastellux may therefore be regarded as one of the first supporters of that doctrine of human perfectibility which lies at the bottom of all the prevailing opinions of the eighteenth century. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z We have nothing to do in judging of this matter with the imperfect illustrations afforded by the lives of professed imitators of Christ of the perfectibility to which his teachings tend. The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z But what shocked me, had been the denuding treatment of my all-glorious festival,—my romance of perfectibility, my ideal world. Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 2012-02-23T03:00:42.347Z The Evolution of the Christian Principle The distinction between the Christian principle and its successive realisations renders it easy to resolve the question, formerly so much debated, as to the perfectibility of Christianity. Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History 2012-01-01T03:00:07.953Z A year's association with him will have softened her fibre, will have aroused in her mind doubts of the perfectibility of mankind. Atlantic Classics, Second Series 2011-12-09T03:00:20.203Z But I notice with a smile that these are often the men who work hardest of all to spread their ideas, and thus testify to the worthwhileness of truth and the perfectibility of mankind. The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z This is about the time when Jeremy might be expected back on his first centennial visit to see how we have got along the road to human perfectibility. Leaves in the Wind 2011-10-28T02:00:25.937Z Here again he sought expression for his ever-widening aspirations after human perfectibility. Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z This splendid dream of the perfectibility of human nature may not have led us very far in the past, but at least it has never once led us wrong. The Builders 2011-09-19T02:00:09.067Z Oh born to shew, and prove the perfectibility of earthly happiness, and the falsehood and sophistry of the ignorance and superstition that deny it! The Wanderer (Volume 4 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:32.663Z Mr. Spencer affirms "the evanescence of evil" and the perfectibility of man, upon the ground that: "All evil results from the non-adaptation of constitution to conditions." Supernatural Religion, Vol. I. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation 2011-08-30T02:00:33.183Z In other words, can cultivation raise all the different races to the same intellectual standard? and are no limits imposed to the perfectibility of our species? The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z He has no belief either in this natural paradise or in ‘Godwinian perfectibility.’ Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z The "natural inequality" between these two forces "appears insurmountable in the way to the perfectibility of society." Population Growth Has Driven Up the Food Price to Alarming Levels 2011-07-15T02:15:00Z Springing out of his physical perfectibility, arises a new world of spiritual wants and aspirations, unanswered and unanswerable in mortal life. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z Like Godwin, he believed man capable of his own redemption and, with tradition and tyranny overthrown and reason and nature enthroned, he hoped for universal justice and ultimate perfectibility of mankind. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z One great reason why so many refuse to recognize mental as well as physical differences among races, is the common and favorite belief of our time in the infinite perfectibility of man. The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z But in truth I do not at all believe in this sort of perfectibility. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z So, once more, the perfectibility of cookery indicates the perfectibility of society. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 2011-04-01T02:00:28.747Z But in truth I do not at all believe in this sort of perfectibility—the nature of the world will not admit of it—the inhabitants of the world will correspond to itself. Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends 2011-03-30T02:00:14.620Z Shelley, following Godwin and Condorcet, was a firm believer in the perfectibility of human nature. The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources 2011-03-08T03:00:45.010Z The state of our civilization does not, therefore, prove the unlimited perfectibility of man. The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z 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? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 The law of evolution makes the belief in human perfectibility easy; the principles of religion make the belief glorious. Letters from a Father to His Son Entering College His fundamental idea is that of a human perfectibility which has manifested itself in continuous progress in the past, and must lead to indefinite progress in the future. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" But these equal animal men had one quality beyond the other animals,—perfectibility, the power of further development and this was the reason of inequality. Landmarks of Scientific Socialism "Anti-Duehring" And even supposing that we have applied to governmental science some secondary principle of our own invention, does this justify us in our exaggerated pretension to unlimited perfectibility? The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z She never arrived at that perfectibility, which is seen in many smokers, of swallowing the fumes, or of making them pass out at her nostrils. Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century Indeed, the conception of the infinite perfectibility of man, and of an eternal progress, carried its own doom in the familiar observation that there where progress can be traced, there the divine is least immanent. The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe As to indefinite perfectibility, he nowhere denies that progress is conditioned both by the constitution of humanity and the character of its surroundings. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" An engineer by trade, Mackay believed in the unlimited perfectibility of all machines except the human machine. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 2 (of 25) Man cannot, then, surpass himself: man's perfectibility is not infinite. The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z No dream of human perfectibility, but the expected advent of the true Ruler of the earth, is the relief to the palpable darkness of the existing world. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) The doctrines of perfectibility and universal benevolence clothed themselves for him in the Godwinian phraseology, but they were the instinctive beliefs of his temperament. Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle But still he could not share his friends' belief in the perfectibility of mankind. Dreamers of the Ghetto It seemed to hold for the three the sum of human perfectibility. The Prisoner Indeed, that sublime impulse of perfectibility, always vivacious, always working under various forms and with one underlying purpose, would be futile without them, and fatuous. The Book of Khalid He laughs at the perfectibility of the species, and holds that 'all things move, not in progress but in a ceaseless round.' Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) It was such an essentially cold and calculating intellect as this which in that age of ferment could launch the new doctrine of the infinite perfectibility of mankind. Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle Old Robert Owen, when he began his reforms, rested his doctrine and his hopes of perfectibility upon the scientific application of a scheme for "the formation of character". Social Rights and Duties, Volume I (of 2) Addresses to Ethical Societies But Herbert Spencer asserts the perfectibility of man with an assurance which makes us gasp. Introduction to the Science of Sociology The impulse of perfectibility, we repeat, whether at work in a Studio, or in a Factory, or in a Prison Cell, is the most noble of all human impulses, the most divine. The Book of Khalid It occurs in a review of a book in which Madame de Staël maintains the doctrine of human perfectibility. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) The first essential dogma of perfectibility, the first presupposition of progress is, then, that men's characters depend on external circumstances. Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle Believe, as he may, in human equality or in the perfectibility of humanity, no such theory has ever yet been realized, nor will it ever be realized in this probationary state of man. The Relations of the Federal Government to Slavery Delivered at Fort Wayne, Ind., October 30th 1860 It was a foolish philosophy, which believed in ennui as an evidence and a means of human perfectibility. The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 It is not thus that we view Nature, for everywhere we see signs of perfectibility in the component parts and in the whole together. The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty The true explanation is, that they have survived their first passion, and that their faith is somewhat shaken in the boyish creed of the absolute perfectibility of woman. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 At the end of all their arguments for liberty and perfectibility, we seem to hear to-day a chorus of women's voices which points the application to themselves. Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle I have also sought to show that the development of the psychic faculties may form an orderly step in the process of human unfoldment and perfectibility. Second Sight A study of Natural and Induced Clairvoyance They have based on faith the infinite perfectibility of conscience. New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915 Malthus's starting-point, as we have seen, was the opposition to the doctrine of 'perfectibility.' The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill It is a philosophy of the past, and almost a hymn in honour of human perfectibility. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. They avoid political themes, but the idea of human perfectibility none the less pervades the book with an unaggressive presence, a cold and wintry sun. Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle He was an Economist, but he was something more; for the most characteristic article in his creed was a passionate belief in the infinite perfectibility of human nature. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Essay 3: Condorcet Where are now your words and promises; the equality, perfectibility, and universal happiness of the human race? The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Malthus argues that 'perfectibility' gives an impossible end because equality would lead to vice and misery. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill Condorcet, as the century drew towards a close, bringing together the ideas of economists and historians, traced human progress through the past, and uttered ardent prophecies of human perfectibility in the future. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. His intellect had assimilated all the steps in the argument for perfectibility. Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle In short, the end of the speculation is a confirmed and heightened conviction of the indefinite perfectibility of the species, with certain foreshadowings of the direction which this perfectibility would ultimately follow. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Essay 3: Condorcet Having your blood sucked, is therefore, a great proof of high heraldry and perfectibility in the scale of creation. Olla Podrida But where its modern upholders refer all things to an unknowable source, she builds her belief “on the perfectibility of God.” Mary Wollstonecraft 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) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity He lived no longer among ardent spirits who would brave everything and do anything for human perfectibility. Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle Like many other men of his rank at that time, he was an ardent admirer of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and a firm believer in the native nobility and general perfectibility of man. France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 I cannot finish this subject without making a remark upon creation and its perfectibility. Olla Podrida They talk of the perfectibility of man and of the dignity of his nature; and, entirely forgetting what he is, declaim perpetually about what he should be.” Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII 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, compared with the result. Sophisms of the Protectionists They were afire with an almost religious faith in human perfectibility. Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle It is well to ponder, by the roar of the cataracts of the Nile, over the perfectibility of man. Sketches Abating much of what has been extravagantly vaunted about the march of mind and the perfectibility of human society, it is still visibly true that the general condition of the world is improved and improving. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 In the same way the doctrine of the perfectibility of human nature lends itself to perversion. Secret Societies And Subversive Movements For his powers do not augment by possessing truth, but by investigating it, wherein consists his only perfectibility. The Builders A Story and Study of Masonry He retained to the last his ardent faith in progress, and the perfectibility of mankind. Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle If he means the second, then how has he overthrown the doctrine of human perfectibility as he professes to have done? The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg Away into infinity stretched this perfectibility of love; into eternity, I was drifting, alone, silent, yet burdened still with the remembrance of the sadness of the bells. Violets and Other Tales The Catholic Church is consequently quite right in declaring that the doctrine of the perfectibility of human nature leads to the deification of humanity in that it puts humanity in the place of God. Secret Societies And Subversive Movements He found his old faith in the perfectibility of man renewed, and often he would keep his eyes closed for many minutes together, so that he could see the face of his dreams. The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Nothing was too mighty for this new-begotten hope, and the path to human perfectibility stretched as plain as the narrow road to Bunyan's Heavenly City. Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle Since it is obliged to remain thus circumscribed, it is easy to foresee the limit of perfectibility. The Mind of the Artist Thoughts and Sayings of Painters and Sculptors on Their Art He must be able to comprehend all the good, the music, the joy, the beauty, the glory, the infinite perfectibility, in this world and the next, which should follow his choice in the other direction. Our Unitarian Gospel Such an attitude is based upon a faith in the perfectibility of man and the possibility of the regeneration of society. Introduction to Non-Violence In his latest poems—in Hellas, in Adonais—he was perhaps a little inclined to remove the scene of perfectibility to a metaphysical region, as the Christian church soon removed it to the other world. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion We are custodians of the spirit of righteousness, of the spirit of equal-handed justice, of the spirit of hope which believes in the perfectibility of the law with the perfectibility of human life itself. President Wilson's Addresses But do not run away with the notion that it is mere words—a St. Simonian dream of perfectibility, or anything like that. Sunrise Did the great promoter of the Revolution ponder on the failure of his aspirations after a state of human perfectibility? Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 426 Volume 17, New Series, February 28, 1852 The hapless and despairing wretches of Pascal were transformed by the votaries of perfectibility into bright beings not any lower than the angels. Critical Miscellanies (Vol 2 of 3) Essay 1: Vauvenargues In just this way, Shelley believed in perfectibility. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion I would rather live under the feet of the Czar than in those states of perfectibility imagined by Fourier and Cabet, if I might choose my 'pis aller.' The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II Before passing on let us observe, that were it not for this conviction of the divine origin, and consequent perfectibility of our nature, the very thought of God would be painful to us. Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series But, whether faith in continuance of being is firm or frail, few doubt the perfectibility of spirit, because, beyond almost all things, they are seeking its perfection. The Ascent of the Soul But of course, if that were so, further growth and development would be impossible, and in view of infinite perfectibility there is yet very much that is faulty and incomplete. The Child of the Dawn The perfectibility of the human mind, the animating theory of the eloquent De Staël, consists in the mass of our ideas, to which every age will now add, by means unknown to preceding generations. Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions It makes one believe, somehow, in human perfectibility. One Man in His Time His opinion seems to be based upon a human perfectibility. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Hogg laughed at him for his belief in the 'perfectibility' of the race, but Hogg knew the belief was vital to the poet. Recent Developments in European Thought On the very threshold of the book we meet the dogma of the perfectibility of man. Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham Democracy must stand or fall on a platform of possible human perfectibility. The Promise of American Life She beheld him suddenly as a man who was inspired by an exalted illusion—the illusion of human perfectibility. One Man in His Time The highest expectation of results to be witnessed and enjoyed by the approaching generations involves no postulate of human perfectibility, It finds ample warrant in what has been accomplished under our eyes. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 “You make a distinction, of course,” said Mr Escot, “between scientific and moral perfectibility?” Headlong Hall I travelled in Europe at this period, before my marriage, still cherishing in my mind the idea of general perfectibility, which was so popular at that time with the "Intelligentia." The World's Greatest Books — Volume 10 — Lives and Letters For better or worse, democracy cannot be disentangled from an aspiration toward human perfectibility, and hence from the adoption of measures looking in the direction of realizing such an aspiration. The Promise of American Life What it does involve is the highest conceivable grade of individual existence; in fact, of a grade so high that it is quite beyond conception,—in short, it involves human perfectibility. Two Thousand Miles on an Automobile Being a Desultory Narrative of a Trip Through New England, New York, Canada, and the West, By "Chauffeur" When amidst the struggle of sin you have determined the soul to strive after that truth, then that soul is in progress of solid conversion and final perfectibility. The world's great sermons, Volume 08 Talmage to Knox Little Contemplate the progress of naval architecture, and the slow, but immense succession of concatenated intelligence, by which it has gradually attained its present stage of perfectibility. Headlong Hall "I cannot agree," said Mr. Foster, "in the consequences being so very disastrous, though I admit that in some respects the use of animal food retards the perfectibility of the species." The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction Even the revolutionary spirit of the time looked both before and after, and took history as well as the human perfectibility imagined by philosophers into its purview. English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge With the divorce court before our eyes, even the most enthusiastic believer in the natural goodness and ultimate perfectibility of human nature must admit that men and women are frail. Vain Fortune I assure you, ladies, that we sometimes find ourselves in company which enables us to believe in the perfectibility of the human species. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 I admit, that in some respects the use of animal food retards, though it cannot materially inhibit, the perfectibility of the species. Headlong Hall This is one of the reasons, why mere animals cannot form such ideas, nor ever acquire the perfectibility which depends on such an operation. A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation Of The Inequality Among Mankind The doctrine of extreme individualism was but the counterpart, the obverse, of ideals of the indefinite perfectibility of man and of a social organization having a scope as wide as humanity. Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education The idea of perfectibility is therefore as old as the world; equality did not give birth to it, although it has imparted to it a novel character. Democracy in America — Volume 2 God is contradictory of man, just as charity is contradictory of justice; as sanctity, the ideal of perfection, is contradictory of perfectibility; as royalty, the ideal of legislative power, is contradictory of law, etc. System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery Nor is this argument peculiar to the theologians; we find it expressed in equivalent language in the philosophical writings of the materialists, believers in infinite perfectibility. What is Property? I took in all the new ideas at one time—human perfectibility, now. Middlemarch We are, I hope, an improving race; there is room, I am sure, for great improvement, and the perfectibility of man is certainly a pretty dream. Vivian Grey Aristocratic nations are naturally too apt to narrow the scope of human perfectibility; democratic nations to expand it beyond compass. Democracy in America — Volume 2 The art of acting I had little considered, and was ignorant of its extent and degree of perfectibility. The Adventures of Hugh Trevor I did not believe in the perfectibility of man. Twilight in Italy "It will consist in the deepest reverence for moral worth, the tenderest pity for the frailties of human nature, the most profound faith in its ultimate perfectibility," Ideala answered. The Heavenly Twins He did not believe in the perfectibility of man, or in the ultimate prevalence of virtue in the world. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius I have shown how the ideas of progression and of the indefinite perfectibility of the human race belong to democratic ages. Democracy in America — Volume 2 Certainly the sights he saw there were not calculated to destroy his revolutionary longings, though they were often such as might well have made him doubt of the ultimate perfectibility of the human race. A Girl Among the Anarchists This is the spirituality of Shelley, the perfectibility of man. Twilight in Italy But there is only one Westminster Abbey; and I am so far a believer in the perfectibility of our species as to suppose that vergers are nowhere possible but in England. Venetian Life She was to put an end to war, and produce, by a pure form of government, a perfectibility of mind which before had never been realized. Selected Speeches on British Foreign Policy 1738-1914 To do this, he did not meditate upon human frailty and perfectibility; he did not attempt to frame institutions carefully graduated to suit the dissimilar dispositions, faculties, and desires of men. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 13, November, 1858 Again, the two principles on which Seneca relied as the basis of all his moral system are: first, the principle that we ought to follow Nature; and, secondly, the supposed perfectibility of the ideal man. Seekers after God It logically leads to that other idea, of the native majesty of man and the perfectibility of society, which this sophist boldly accepted. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 13 Great Writers; Dr Lord's Uncompleted Plan, Supplemented with Essays by Emerson, Macaulay, Hedge, and Mercer Adam But she claimed to be the first to apply perfectibility to literature. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 07 Great Women But the state of perfectibility could be reached only by religious ceremonial observances and devout contemplation. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 01 The Old Pagan Civilizations He quizzed Mr. Owen most unmercifully; pinched him here for his parallelograms; hit him there for his human perfectibility, and kept the whole audience in a roar of laughter. Domestic Manners of the Americans But the state of perfectibility could only be reached by religious ceremonial observances and devout contemplation. The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. The disciples of this independent doctrine hold forth instances of the perfectibility of human actions, produced by the unassisted decisions of human intellect on the limits of right and wrong. Thaddeus of Warsaw In the consciousness of the average householder miracles like these formed the pattern of his belief in the perfectibility of the human race. Public Opinion For this reign of the last absolute king of France was a time of hope and of belief in human perfectibility. The Eve of the French Revolution Let the disbelievers in human perfectibility know that this dragoon, capable of a blush, did this virtuous action, albeit with violent reluctance; and this was his first damper. Stories by English Authors: England And if it is true, there remains the further hypothesis of man's moral and social "perfectibility," which rests on much less impressive evidence. The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth Across that sanguinary scene passed, like a mocking ghost, the philosophers' vision of the perfectibility of man. The Valley of Decision He will not even condescend to examine the grounds from which the perfectibility of society is inferred. An Essay on the Principle of Population Doctrine of indefinite perfectibility Ideologues Men were only to be governed by fear and interest Moliere's—"I pardon you, but you shall pay me for this!" Widger's Quotations from Project Gutenberg Edition of Memoirs of Napoleon I have weighty reasons for doubting the perfectibility of the Nibelungs. Prince Hagen If then humanity is indefinitely variable, perfectibility is possible. The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth That general belief in the perfectibility of man which cheered the eighteenth-century thinkers in their struggle for intellectual liberty coloured with a delightful brightness this vision of a renewed humanity. The Valley of Decision The last question which Mr Condorcet proposes for examination is the organic perfectibility of man. An Essay on the Principle of Population He is not 'prepared to sacrifice or to hazard the fruit of centuries of experience, of centuries of struggles, and of one century of liberty, for visionary schemes of ideal perfectibility.' Table Talk Essays on Men and Manners I am very glad to hear that you have been arguing against Nageli's law of perfectibility, which seems to me superfluous. More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 Here is the theory of perfectibility asserted, on new grounds, with a confidence not less assured than that of Condorcet or Godwin. The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth Here began a conversation ranging from chemistry to taxation, and from the perfectibility of man to the secondary origin of the earth's surface. The Valley of Decision In the sense in which Mr Godwin understands the term 'perfectible', the perfectibility of man cannot be asserted, unless the preceding propositions could have been clearly established. An Essay on the Principle of Population As to the second, the organic perfectibility of the vegetable world is undisputed, is Nature less powerful in the nobler existence of thinking man? Zanoni If it had not shaken her faith in human perfectibility, it had taught her at least the value of tradition in chaining brutal human passions. The Women of the French Salons His survey of human conditions seems to lead inevitably to pessimism; then he turns round and proclaims the doctrine of perfectibility. The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth It would have been hard to say whether his patron was most tickled by his zeal for economic reforms, or by his faith in the perfectibility of man. The Valley of Decision The real perfectibility of man may be illustrated, as I have mentioned before, by the perfectibility of a plant. An Essay on the Principle of Population Nor were these all the steps towards theoretical perfectibility which this community had made. The Coming Race De Stael was in the flush of hope and enthusiasm, fresh from the study of Rousseau and her own dreams of human perfectibility; radiant, too, with the reflection of her youthful fame. The Women of the French Salons Cabanis, the physician, was Condorcet's literary executor, and a no less ardent believer in human perfectibility. The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth Like the ancients in general, he had no idea of the gradual perfectibility of man or of the education of the human race. The Republic The foundations, therefore, on which the arguments for the organic perfectibility of man rest, are unusually weak, and can only be considered as mere conjectures. An Essay on the Principle of Population That is at once a plain rejection of perfectibility, and an opinion that intellectual development is no highroad to the gates of a golden city. The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth It was a matter of course that the defender of original sin should reject the doctrine of perfectibility. The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth He denounced Condorcet, and opposed to perfectibility the corruptible nature of man. The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth They are inconveniences incident to the perfectibility of the species, and they will be eliminated only when Progress reaches its final term. The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth The advocate for the perfectibility of man, and of society, retorts on the defender of establishments a more than equal contempt. An Essay on the Principle of Population It provided the optimists with new arguments against Rousseau, and must have done much to spread and confirm faith in perfectibility. The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth Later ages, he said, will go further, for "where can the perfectibility of man stop, armed with geometry and the mechanical arts and chemistry?" The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth Vice and misery and the inexorable laws of population were a godsend to rescue the state from "the precipice of perfectibility." The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth The Essay of Malthus afterwards became one of the sacred books of the Utilitarian sect, and it is interesting to notice what Bentham himself thought of perfectibility. The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth I have read some of the speculations on the perfectibility of man and of society with great pleasure. An Essay on the Principle of Population It will be observed that Spencer's doctrine of perfectibility rests on an entirely different basis from the doctrine of the eighteenth century. The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth The cause of this neglect on the part of the advocates for the perfectibility of mankind is not easily accounted for. An Essay on the Principle of Population In this context he says that the conception of an infinite "progressivity" is included in the conception of "history," but adds that the perfectibility of the race cannot be directly inferred. The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth Consequently, if the premises are just, the argument is conclusive against the perfectibility of the mass of mankind. An Essay on the Principle of Population |
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