But she claimed to be the first to apply perfectibility to literature.
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.
The central thought, which inspired the gospel of perfectibility has a meaning for men which an enlightened mind can grasp, but it tells the plain obvious fact about women.
Nothing was too mighty for this new-begotten hope, and the path to humanperfectibility stretched as plain as the narrow road to Bunyan's Heavenly City.
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.
Its thesis is that no limit can be set to the perfection of human faculties, that the progress and perfectibility of man are independent of any power which can arrest them, and have no term unless it be the duration of the globe itself.
He retained to the last his ardent faith in progress, and the perfectibility of mankind.
The doctrines of perfectibility and universal benevolence clothed themselves for him in the Godwinian phraseology, but they were the instinctive beliefs of his temperament.
The Perfectibility of Man Equality suggests many ideas which would never have arisen without it, and among others the notion that humanity can reach perfection--a theory which has practical consequences of great interest.
This theory of perfectibility exercises prodigious influence even on those who have never thought of it.
If we suppose a color infinitely perfected, it will never become a sound, a sound a taste, a taste a sound, nor a sound a color; because perfectibility is confined to its own order.
Moreover, we must observe, that the perfectibility of touch by means of its isolation does not belong to it exclusively, but extends likewise to the other senses; for it is founded on the laws of organization, and the generation of our ideas.
This perfectibilitywould lie in a different order, eternally distinct from that of intellectual beings.
This perfectibility is indefinite, and the farther we advance, the greater do we find its extension.
He alone is capable of a perfectibility which is indefinite, which forms a chain the countless links of which would seem to stretch beyond the limits of the present world.
A third consequence of human perfectibility we must notice here, because it tends to modify the doctrine of Malthus in its most afflicting phase.
The consequences of this perversion of the two great springs of human perfectibility are fatal.
Now improvement or perfectibility implies always, to a certain extent, imperfection in the future as well as in the past.
Malthus's Essay on Population grew out of some discussions which he had with his father respecting the perfectibility of society.
His fundamental idea is that of a human perfectibilitywhich has manifested itself in continuous progress in the past, and must lead to indefinite progress in the future.
The great French thinkers of the later eighteenth century borrowed this idea from Bacon and developed it into the doctrine of the indefinite perfectibility of mankind on earth.
The theory of Perfectibility required a future state of infinite progress for each and all; the theory of a good God required it.
When our moral powers increase in proportion to our physical ones, then huzza, for the perfectibility of man!
But Herbert Spencer asserts theperfectibility of man with an assurance which makes us gasp.
Miss Nightingale, here as in other matters, hoped more of human perfectibility than she was to find; the immediate future was to belie her picture alike of the severe self-restraint of Paris, and of the unexampled moderation of Prussia.
Her fundamental doctrine of human perfectibility by Divine order encouraged her to see in Lord Ripon the Providential instrument of vast changes.
Suppose you go and help the wife, and I go and help the blacksmith half of every day; they might then study perfectibility the other half.
Only I do not see why woman should not cultivate her intellectual and moral powers, and march onward in the career of perfectibilityas well as man.
I admit, that in some respects the use of animal food retards, though it cannot materially inhibit, the perfectibility of the species.
Perfectibility of the Brethren of the Free Spirit, ii.
They seem to have avoided the pantheism of the Germans, and did not teach the return of the soul to its Creator, but they adopted the dangerous tenet of the perfectibility of man, who in this life can become as holy as Christ.
Man cannot, then, surpass himself: man's perfectibility is not infinite.
The state of our civilization does not, therefore, prove the unlimited perfectibility of man.
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.
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.
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.
Enormous manifestoes of the doctrine of perfectibility were not in the least degree either soothing or interesting to Rousseau, and the thrusts of shrewd candour at his expense might touch his fancy on a single occasion, but not oftener.
The dream of human perfectibility which nerved men like Condorcet, was to Rousseau a sour and fantastic mockery.
I can only say of my impressions that they were of the utmost perfectibility of human wishes in their accomplishment, for she had indeed nothing left to wish for.
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.
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