meliorism

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Meliorism treats salvation as neither inevitable nor impossible.

From Pragmatism by James, William

Meliorism, the theory that there is in nature a tendency to better and better development.

From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin

A few days were spent with Miss Jane Hume Clapperton, author of "Scientific Meliorism," and we had an interesting time visiting George Eliot's haunts and friends.

From An Autobiography by Spence, Catherine Helen