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