But Shakespeare is a meliorist even in Hamlet, and believes that the ailments of man can all be set right.
"The Man Shakespeare"
Frank Harris
Now Wagner was, when he wrote The Ring, a most sanguine revolutionary meliorist, contemptuous of the reasoning faculty, which he typified in the shifty, unreal, delusive Loki, and full of faith in the life-giving Will, which he typified in the glorious Siegfried.
"The Perfect Wagnerite A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring"
George Bernard Shaw
Should I be even a meliorist-as I am-if I had?
"The Dweller on the Threshold"
Robert Smythe Hichens