evolutionism
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Lately, this view, "cultural evolutionism," has been revived and given a new vocabulary.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 Grant Allen
And while Dewey accepts an evolutionary view of reality in general, the idealist has found evolutionism, at least in its biological form, too limited in scope to serve the extensive interests of philosophy.
From John Dewey's logical theory by Delton Thomas Howard
On every side evolutionism, in its crude form, was already in the air.
From Charles Darwin by Grant Allen
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 Bertrand Russell
