evolutionism

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

And evolutionism is gradually though slowly filtering downward.

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

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 Huxley, Thomas H.