"perfectability" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1920, Sax Rohmer, chapter III, in The Golden Scorpion:",
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          "text": "In him as in his two intimates, Gallatin and Madison, there was a touch of that philosophy which colored the thought of reformers on the eve of the French Revolution, a naive confidence in the perfectability of man and the essential worthiness of his aspirations.",
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