evolutionism
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Lately, this view, "cultural evolutionism," has been revived and given a new vocabulary.
From Time Magazine Archive
Why was it that the 'Origin of Species' possessed this extraordinary vitalising and kinetic power, this germinal energy, this contagious force, beyond all other forms of evolutionism previously promulgated?
From Charles Darwin by Grant Allen
And herein consisted his great advance upon the earlier evolutionism of Lamarck, Goethe, and Erasmus Darwin.
From Charles Darwin by Grant Allen
When the truth is boiled down, it appears that Dewey's historical method, in so far as he had one, was based on biological evolutionism.
From John Dewey's logical theory by Delton Thomas Howard
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
