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 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

Darwin's Origin of Species appeared in 1859, and marked another step in Spencer's evolutionism.

From Herbert Spencer by Thomson, J. Arthur (John Arthur)

Apart, however, from this scientific objection to evolutionism, there is another, derived from the undue admixture of ethical notions in the very idea of progress from which evolutionism derives its charm.

From Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Russell, Bertrand