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 Russell, Bertrand

And herein consisted his great advance upon the earlier evolutionism of Lamarck, Goethe, and Erasmus Darwin.

From Charles Darwin by Allen, Grant

If that is a legitimate theory it increases our respect for what we call the inanimate, but it does not make our biological evolutionism any easier, nor are we any nearer explaining life.

From Herbert Spencer by Thomson, J. Arthur (John Arthur)

The air was thick with whiffs and foretastes of evolutionism, and the two budding naturalists of the Amazons expedition had inhaled them eagerly with every breath.

From Charles Darwin by Allen, Grant