'meliorism' in The Group | Bookmarker

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

she had "reacted" [...] against her mother's measured and stately meliorism and bridled at the very notion of changing people

—p.177 by Mary McCarthy

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