evolutionism
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Lately, this view, "cultural evolutionism," has been revived and given a new vocabulary.
From Time Magazine Archive
But both these sorts of evolutionism have in common the emphasis on progress, that is, upon a continual change from the worse to the better, or from the simpler to the more complex.
From Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell
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 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
Neo-Lamarckism is therefore, of all the later forms of evolutionism, the only one capable of admitting an internal and psychological principle of development, although it is not bound to do so.
From Creative Evolution by Arthur Mitchell
