evolutionism

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Without him we should have had, not only evolutionism, but also, as Wallace's discovery testifies, natural selection itself into the bargain.

From Charles Darwin by Allen, Grant

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 Russell, Bertrand

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)

Even so late as 1894, a professor of biology at the University of Texas was dismissed, in violation of contract, for teaching evolutionism.

From Liberty In The Nineteenth Century by Holland, Frederic May