evolutionism

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

From Time Magazine Archive

This is the principle of natural selection or survival of the fittest—the great principle which Darwin and Wallace added to the evolutionism of Lamarck and his successors.

From Charles Darwin by Allen, Grant

Delk, a prominent member of the General Synod, has been an ardent advocate of modern rationalism and evolutionism.

From American Lutheranism Volume 2: The United Lutheran Church (General Synod, General Council, United Synod in the South) by Bente, F. (Friedrich)

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

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