evolutionism

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Evolutionism was the rage before Queen Victoria came to the throne.

From Back to Methuselah by Shaw, Bernard

Evolutionism had to look for advocates in America to Spiritualists like Denton or unbelievers like Underwood at that period.

From Liberty In The Nineteenth Century by Holland, Frederic May

A passage in the Introduction to the Descent of Man shows that the author recognised clearly this improvement in the position of Evolutionism.

From Charles Darwin: His Life in an Autobiographical Chapter, and in a Selected Series of His Published Letters by Darwin, Charles

What then, we may ask, were the causes which led Lyell to abandon the views in which he had been instructed, and to become the great champion of Evolutionism?

From The Coming of Evolution The Story of a Great Revolution in Science by John W.

From 1830, when Darwin was an apparently unpromising lad of twenty-one, until 1859, when he turned the world upside down by his Origin of Species, there was a slump in Evolutionism.

From Back to Methuselah by Shaw, Bernard