evolutionism
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Lately, this view, "cultural evolutionism," has been revived and given a new vocabulary.
From Time Magazine Archive
But both these sorts of evolutionism have in common the emphasis on progress, that is, upon a continual change from the worse to the better, or from the simpler to the more complex.
From Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell
The context shows that "uniformitarianism" here means that doctrine, as limited in application by Hutton and Lyell, and that what I mean by "evolutionism" is consistent and thoroughgoing uniformitarianism.
From Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions by Thomas H. Huxley
Without him we should have had, not only evolutionism, but also, as Wallace's discovery testifies, natural selection itself into the bargain.
From Charles Darwin by Grant Allen
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 Grant Allen
