evolutionism

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

From Time Magazine Archive

If that is a legitimate theory it increases our respect for what we call the inanimate, but it does not make our biological evolutionism any easier, nor are we any nearer explaining life.

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

As a matter of taste, Lyell did not relish the application of evolutionism to his own species.

From Charles Darwin by Allen, Grant

Such hazy and indistinct thinkers as these are still really at the prior stage of Lamarckian evolutionism.

From Charles Darwin by Allen, Grant

The evolutionary conception of life is the foundation of that philosophy, which, however, has little or nothing in common with the materialistic and dogmatic evolutionism of the last century.

From Mr. Faust by Ficke, Arthur Davison