evolutionism
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Lately, this view, "cultural evolutionism," has been revived and given a new vocabulary.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 Arthur Mitchell
His doctrine bore indeed the name of evolutionism; it claimed to remount and redescend the course of the universal becoming; but, in fact, it dealt neither with becoming nor with evolution.
From Creative Evolution by Arthur Mitchell
When the truth is boiled down, it appears that Dewey's historical method, in so far as he had one, was based on biological evolutionism.
From John Dewey's logical theory by Delton Thomas Howard
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 Arthur Mitchell
