Excerpt from Meliorism, a Series of Theological Essays: Written in an Effort to Point Out to the Reader a More Reasonable and Satisfactory Interpretation of the Ideas of God, the Universe, and the Hereafter, and to Put Him in Touch With the Progressive Thought of the Present Relative to These IdeasMeliorism teaches that there is throughout nature a tendency toward improvement. When applied to mankind it represents that conception of life which is marked by a gradual growing better. This term has been adopted as the title of this book for three reasons.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.