evolutionism

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The new evolutionism is very different from the old.

From Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson by Hardwick, John Charlton

The context shows that "uniformitarianism" here means that doctrine, as limited in application by Hutton and Lyell, and that what I mean by "evolutionism" is consistent and thoroughgoing uniformitarianism.

From Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions by Huxley, Thomas H.

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

And it is also the only evolutionism that seems to us to account for the building up of identical complex organs on independent lines of development.

From Creative Evolution by Mitchell, Arthur