evolutionism

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Such hazy and indistinct thinkers as these are still really at the prior stage of Lamarckian evolutionism.

From Charles Darwin by Allen, Grant

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.

The Nestor of evolutionism, he had lived among two successive generations of thinkers, and over the third he ruled as king.

From Charles Darwin by Allen, Grant

In assuming dogmatically a certain answer to this question, evolutionism ceases to be scientific, yet it is only in touching on this question that evolutionism reaches the subject-matter of philosophy.

From Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy by Russell, Bertrand