evolutionism
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Lately, this view, "cultural evolutionism," has been revived and given a new vocabulary.
From Time Magazine Archive
Neo-Lamarckism is therefore, of all the later forms of evolutionism, the only one capable of admitting an internal and psychological principle of development, although it is not bound to do so.
From Creative Evolution by Mitchell, Arthur
Unconsciously, but not accidentally, Dickens was here working out the whole true comparison between swift revolutionism in Paris and slow evolutionism in London.
From Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
His doctrine bore indeed the name of evolutionism; it claimed to remount and redescend the course of the universal becoming; but, in fact, it dealt neither with becoming nor with evolution.
From Creative Evolution by Mitchell, Arthur
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 Allen, Grant
