evolutionism
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Lately, this view, "cultural evolutionism," has been revived and given a new vocabulary.
From Time Magazine Archive
The new evolutionism is very different from the old.
From Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson by John Charlton Hardwick
That double communication marks the date of birth of modern evolutionism.
From Charles Darwin by Grant Allen
And while Dewey accepts an evolutionary view of reality in general, the idealist has found evolutionism, at least in its biological form, too limited in scope to serve the extensive interests of philosophy.
From John Dewey's logical theory by Delton Thomas Howard
The context shows that "uniformitarianism" here means that doctrine, as limited in application by Hutton and Lyell, and that what I mean by "evolutionism" is consistent and thoroughgoing uniformitarianism.
From Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions by Thomas H. Huxley
