evolutionism

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Lately, this view, "cultural evolutionism," has been revived and given a new vocabulary.

From Time Magazine Archive

The predominant interest of evolutionism is in the question of human destiny, or at least of the destiny of Life.

From Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Russell, Bertrand

As a matter of taste, Lyell did not relish the application of evolutionism to his own species.

From Charles Darwin by Allen, Grant

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 Howard, Delton Thomas

In thus submitting the various present forms of evolutionism to a common test, in showing that they all strike against the same insurmountable difficulty, we have in no wise the intention of rejecting them altogether.

From Creative Evolution by Mitchell, Arthur