evolutionism
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Lately, this view, "cultural evolutionism," has been revived and given a new vocabulary.
From Time Magazine Archive
Such hazy and indistinct thinkers as these are still really at the prior stage of Lamarckian evolutionism.
From Charles Darwin by Grant Allen
If that is a legitimate theory it increases our respect for what we call the inanimate, but it does not make our biological evolutionism any easier, nor are we any nearer explaining life.
From Herbert Spencer by J. Arthur (John Arthur) Thomson
Apart, however, from this scientific objection to evolutionism, there is another, derived from the undue admixture of ethical notions in the very idea of progress from which evolutionism derives its charm.
From Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell
On every side evolutionism, in its crude form, was already in the air.
From Charles Darwin by Grant Allen
