perfectedness

Updated: May 2, 2025

Here can I converse with men by thousands, whose souls are free not politically alone, but free from vulgar error and fanatic superstition; here, in short, have I witnessed, not the perfectedness for that belongs to a far future time but the most advanced stage of civilisation yet reached upon the globe. A dark shadow crosses my eye-glance, and my heart is stung with sudden pain.

Mayne Reid - The Quadroon: Adventures in the Far West