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  • n  the belief that the world can be made better by human effort

  • At the convention, the official mood was traditional Methodist meliorism.
  • Czerniakow, a decent man dedicated to his people (who sometimes mocked him and sang nasty ditties about him), illustrates among other things the dangers of meliorism, of trying to .
  • Perhaps the only force that can embrace these opposites is the meliorism of humor, which happily abounds in this novel.

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