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Small care to him is Perfectibility, Progress of the Species, and Astraea Redux: good only, that a man of light wit, verging towards fourscore, can in the seat of authority feel himself important among men.

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas

Perfectibility belongs only to the temporal; it cannot be predicated of the eternal.

From The Canon of the Bible by Davidson, Samuel

In such a practical France, let the theory of Perfectibility say what it will, discontents cannot be wanting: your promised Reformation is so indispensable; yet it comes not; who will begin it—with himself?

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas

George Fox’s ‘perennial suit,’ with all that it held, has been worn quite into ashes for nigh two centuries: why, in a discussion on the Perfectibility of Society, reproduce it now?

From Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Carlyle, Thomas

George Fox's "perennial suit," with all that it held, has been worn quite into ashes for nigh two centuries: why, in a discussion on the Perfectibility of Society, reproduce it now?

From Sartor Resartus: the life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh by Carlyle, Thomas