evolutionism
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Lately, this view, "cultural evolutionism," has been revived and given a new vocabulary.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
This is the principle of natural selection or survival of the fittest—the great principle which Darwin and Wallace added to the evolutionism of Lamarck and his successors.
From Charles Darwin by Allen, Grant
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 Russell, Bertrand
And evolutionism is gradually though slowly filtering downward.
From Charles Darwin by Allen, Grant
