evolutionism

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Twenty-one years had come and gone since the father of modern scientific evolutionism had launched upon the world his tentative work.

From Charles Darwin by Allen, Grant

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

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

In thus submitting the various present forms of evolutionism to a common test, in showing that they all strike against the same insurmountable difficulty, we have in no wise the intention of rejecting them altogether.

From Creative Evolution by Mitchell, Arthur