evolutionism
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Lately, this view, "cultural evolutionism," has been revived and given a new vocabulary.
From Time Magazine Archive
This is the principle of natural selection or survival of the fittest—the great principle which Darwin and Wallace added to the evolutionism of Lamarck and his successors.
From Charles Darwin by Allen, Grant
Darwin's Origin of Species appeared in 1859, and marked another step in Spencer's evolutionism.
From Herbert Spencer by Thomson, J. Arthur (John Arthur)
The context shows that "uniformitarianism" here means that doctrine, as limited in application by Hutton and Lyell, and that what I mean by "evolutionism" is consistent and thoroughgoing uniformitarianism.
From Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions by Huxley, Thomas H.
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 Thomson, J. Arthur (John Arthur)
