| As an inevitable result of all the influences that constitute his world he finds himself yearning for meliorism as the crownpiece. |
| So he becomes the eloquent apostle of meliorism, proclaiming his gospel without abatement. |
| But, of course, Moynihan's meliorism had a Moynihan twist. |
| No meliorism resides in the second of these standards as it does in the first. |
| The dominant philosophy of statecraft has become a form of pragmatic meliorism with markets and Western democratic institutions as the chosen means for improving our lives. |
| The realization that all may not be tending toward the best, that religious fanaticism and tribal intolerance could prevail over liberal meliorism, is the earthquake of our time. |
