evolutionism

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Unconsciously, but not accidentally, Dickens was here working out the whole true comparison between swift revolutionism in Paris and slow evolutionism in London.

From Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

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 thirty years Mr. Underwood has been busily propagating evolutionism on the platform, as well as in print.

From Liberty In The Nineteenth Century by Holland, Frederic May

If Spencer had begun by putting to himself the question of the hereditability of acquired characters, his evolutionism would no doubt have taken an altogether different form.

From Creative Evolution by Mitchell, Arthur