evolutionism
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Lately, this view, "cultural evolutionism," has been revived and given a new vocabulary.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 Bertrand Russell
The air was thick with whiffs and foretastes of evolutionism, and the two budding naturalists of the Amazons expedition had inhaled them eagerly with every breath.
From Charles Darwin by Grant Allen
As a matter of taste, Lyell did not relish the application of evolutionism to his own species.
From Charles Darwin by Grant Allen
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 Bertrand Russell
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