evolutionism
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Lately, this view, "cultural evolutionism," has been revived and given a new vocabulary.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Nestor of evolutionism, he had lived among two successive generations of thinkers, and over the third he ruled as king.
From Charles Darwin by Grant Allen
In assuming dogmatically a certain answer to this question, evolutionism ceases to be scientific, yet it is only in touching on this question that evolutionism reaches the subject-matter of philosophy.
From Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
Why was it that the 'Origin of Species' possessed this extraordinary vitalising and kinetic power, this germinal energy, this contagious force, beyond all other forms of evolutionism previously promulgated?
From Charles Darwin by Grant Allen
For a true evolutionism would propose to discover by what modus vivendi, gradually obtained, the intellect has adopted its plan of structure, and matter its mode of subdivision.
From Creative Evolution by Arthur Mitchell
