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

From The Canon of the Bible by Davidson, Samuel

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

Now it is a Perfectibility lying in the future; now a Perfection existing eternally.

From Appearances Being Notes of Travel by Dickinson, G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes)

Perfectibility, as expounded by Condorcet and Godwin, encountered a drastic criticism from Malthus, whose Essay on the Principle of Population appeared in its first form anonymously in 1798.

From The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth by Bury, J. B. (John Bagnell)

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