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 Hardwick, John Charlton
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 Russell, Bertrand
Such hazy and indistinct thinkers as these are still really at the prior stage of Lamarckian evolutionism.
From Charles Darwin by Allen, Grant
The air was thick with whiffs and foretastes of evolutionism, and the two budding naturalists of the Amazons expedition had inhaled them eagerly with every breath.
From Charles Darwin by Allen, Grant
