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MELIORISM (Lat. melior, better)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 95 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MELIORISM (
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Lat. melior, better)  , in
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philosophy, a
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term given to that view of the
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world which believes that at
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present the sum of
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good exceeds the sum of evil and that, in the future, good will continually gain upon evil . The term is said to , have been invented by
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George
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Eliot to
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express a theory mediating between optimism and
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pessimism . The pragmatic
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movement in philosophy which puts stress upon the
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duty and value of effort is naturally favourable to the melioristic view: the best things that have been said recently in favour of it are found in books such as
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William
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James's
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Pragmatism .

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