evolutionism
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Lately, this view, "cultural evolutionism," has been revived and given a new vocabulary.
From Time Magazine Archive
As a matter of taste, Lyell did not relish the application of evolutionism to his own species.
From Charles Darwin by Allen, Grant
Even so late as 1894, a professor of biology at the University of Texas was dismissed, in violation of contract, for teaching evolutionism.
From Liberty In The Nineteenth Century by Holland, Frederic May
Twenty-one years had come and gone since the father of modern scientific evolutionism had launched upon the world his tentative work.
From Charles Darwin by Allen, Grant
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 Russell, Bertrand
