evolutionism
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Lately, this view, "cultural evolutionism," has been revived and given a new vocabulary.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Such hazy and indistinct thinkers as these are still really at the prior stage of Lamarckian evolutionism.
From Charles Darwin by Grant Allen
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
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
