The Wisdom of '-isms'
The suffix '-ism' is the quickest way to transport a word into the realms of respectable doctrine, system, or movement.
The novelist George Eliot is credited with formulating the word 'meliorism' - the belief that the world's suffering is healable if we all work together to that end.
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