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perfect
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perfect: see tense tense [O.Fr., from Lat.,=time], in the grammar of many languages, a category of time distinctions expressed by any conjugated form of a verb. In Latin inflection the tense of a verb is indicated by a suffix that also indicates the verb's voice , mood , person, and
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The system is also not the best of all possible systems, so there's lots of room for improvement--but like any system, it's not perfectible, no matter how many times it is reformed, re-engineered, or reimagined.
For myself," he writes in Aubade, "I summarized the liberal religious viewpoint which I heard from Protestant and Jewish students, and even some Catholic students, in this way: man has never fallen, man never incurred guilt, man is ultimately perfectible by his own works, by his own efforts .
Like Kirk, Babbitt lived at odds with the ideologies of his day, intuiting that ideology is at war with man--a fallen creature, not perfectible in this life--and that there are constants, call them permanent things, which must be observed.
 
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