evolutionism

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Allen, Grant

Neo-Lamarckism is therefore, of all the later forms of evolutionism, the only one capable of admitting an internal and psychological principle of development, although it is not bound to do so.

From Creative Evolution by Mitchell, Arthur

His doctrine bore indeed the name of evolutionism; it claimed to remount and redescend the course of the universal becoming; but, in fact, it dealt neither with becoming nor with evolution.

From Creative Evolution by Mitchell, Arthur

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