OP'TIMISM, noun [Latin optimus, best.] The opinion or doctrine that every thing in nature is ordered for the best; or the order of things in the universe that is adapted to produce the most good. The true and amiable philosophy of optimism A system of strict optimism may be the real system in both cases.
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