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
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
This is the principle of natural selection or survival of the fittest—the great principle which Darwin and Wallace added to the evolutionism of Lamarck and his successors.
From Charles Darwin by Grant Allen
The question whether evolutionism offers a true or a false answer to this problem is not, therefore, a question to be solved by appeals to particular facts, such as biology and physics reveal.
From Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
