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.
"An Autobiography"
Catherine Helen Spence
meliorism,-the desire to better the conditions of life for themselves and for their children-animated them.
"The American Empire"
Scott Nearing
In the midst of a futile meliorism which deceives the more, the more it soothes, he stands out like some sinister skeleton at the feast, regarding the festivities with a flickering and impenetrable grin.
"A Book of Prefaces"
H. L. Mencken