evolutionism

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Why was it that the 'Origin of Species' possessed this extraordinary vitalising and kinetic power, this germinal energy, this contagious force, beyond all other forms of evolutionism previously promulgated?

From Charles Darwin by Allen, Grant

And it is also the only evolutionism that seems to us to account for the building up of identical complex organs on independent lines of development.

From Creative Evolution by Mitchell, Arthur

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

The air was thick with whiffs and foretastes of evolutionism, and the two budding naturalists of the Amazons expedition had inhaled them eagerly with every breath.

From Charles Darwin by Allen, Grant