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• The word ideologue was often in Bonaparte's mouth; and in using it he endeavoured to throw ridicule on those men whom he fancied to have a tendency towards the doctrine of indefinite perfectibility. Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
• 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
• Too large a topic to explore in detail here, I want to conclude by suggesting how two ramifications of her parents 'promotion of reason as the path to perfectibility through their creative writings helps to concretize Shelley's origins and legacy as author of Attached to Reading: Mary Shelley's Psychical Reality
• Faith in the perfectibility of man has caused more pratfalls than the banana peel.
• Does his benevolent intention, his belief in "the perfectibility of mankind," mitigate his culpability in any way? The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein by Peter Ackroyd: Questions
• But the complexity of his own world view he opposed British involvement in the war but was himself a power-worshiper with a totalitarian itch who believed passionately in human perfectibility charges what might have been a standard-issue Shavian sermon with the multilayered ambiguity of high art. Smile as the Bomb Goes Off
• Utopianism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centu - ries was supported not only by a belief in the inevita - bility of progress, but also by the widely held doctrine of the malleability or perfectibility of human nature which implied that men's minds and characters could be quickly molded by education to be vastly, if not totally, different from what they were. UTOPIA
• They have firmly accepted the Confucian belief in the perfectibility and educability of the common person.
• Sociologists have been seduced by Marxist ideas about the perfectibility of mankind. ID/Evolution
• In this sense there may be such a thing as perfectibility in works of fiction, notwithstanding the concession often made by the advocates of human improvement, that perfectibility is a term applicable only to science. The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth