Holding that problems are soluble without holding that they are inevitable leads to the pursuit of a perfected final state, which produces dogmatism and violence; an improving system has to expect that every state it reaches will need correcting.

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  The Continental Enlightenment was impatient for the perfected state, state, which led to intellectual dogmatism, political violence and new forms of tyranny.

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