'meliorism' in At the New Yorker | Bookmarker

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(noun) the belief that the world tends to improve and that humans can aid its betterment

Cioran's stoic élitism, his rejection of meliorism à l'américaine

—p.247 Short Shrift (239) by George Steiner

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