evolutionism
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Lately, this view, "cultural evolutionism," has been revived and given a new vocabulary.
From Time Magazine Archive
For thirty years Mr. Underwood has been busily propagating evolutionism on the platform, as well as in print.
From Liberty In The Nineteenth Century by Frederic May Holland
Neo-Lamarckism is therefore, of all the later forms of evolutionism, the only one capable of admitting an internal and psychological principle of development, although it is not bound to do so.
From Creative Evolution by Arthur Mitchell
The question whether evolutionism offers a true or a false answer to this problem is not, therefore, a question to be solved by appeals to particular facts, such as biology and physics reveal.
From Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
When the truth is boiled down, it appears that Dewey's historical method, in so far as he had one, was based on biological evolutionism.
From John Dewey's logical theory by Delton Thomas Howard
