the theory that people are intrinsically virtuous

virtue; kindness

(collective) people, each person, everybody

think / meditate / consider / expect / reflect / prepare / make up one's mind / imagine / contrive

to believe / to trust / to believe in (God, etc.)

essence, nature (intrinsic quality)

(chiefly Internet slang) thinking with common sense

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend