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)

And herein consisted his great advance upon the earlier evolutionism of Lamarck, Goethe, and Erasmus Darwin.

From Charles Darwin by Allen, Grant

The question whether evolutionism offers a true or a false answer to this problem is not, therefore, a question to be solved by appeals to particular facts, such as biology and physics reveal.

From Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 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