evolutionism

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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 predominant interest of evolutionism is in the question of human destiny, or at least of the destiny of Life.

From Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Russell, Bertrand

That is to say that neo-Lamarckism is no more able than any other form of evolutionism to solve the problem.

From Creative Evolution by Mitchell, 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