evolutionism
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Lately, this view, "cultural evolutionism," has been revived and given a new vocabulary.
From Time Magazine Archive
Such hazy and indistinct thinkers as these are still really at the prior stage of Lamarckian evolutionism.
From Charles Darwin by Allen, Grant
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
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
For a true evolutionism would propose to discover by what modus vivendi, gradually obtained, the intellect has adopted its plan of structure, and matter its mode of subdivision.
From Creative Evolution by Mitchell, Arthur
