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The vices and moral weakness of man are not invincible: Man is perfectible, or in other words, susceptible of perpetual improvement
Thomas Robert Malthus
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The real perfectibility of man may be illustrated, as I havementioned before, by the perfectibility of a plant. The object of theenterprising florist is, as I conceive, to unite size, symmetry, and beautyof colour. It would surely be presumptuous in the most successfulimprover to affirm, that he possessed a carnation in which thesequalities existed in the greatest possible state of perfection. Howeverbeautiful his flower may be, other care, other soil, or other suns, mightproduce one still more beautiful
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It may be said with truth that man is always susceptible ofimprovement
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