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 Grant Allen
If Spencer had begun by putting to himself the question of the hereditability of acquired characters, his evolutionism would no doubt have taken an altogether different form.
From Creative Evolution by Arthur Mitchell
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 J. Arthur (John Arthur) Thomson
Neo-Lamarckism is therefore, of all the later forms of evolutionism, the only one capable of admitting an internal and psychological principle of development, although it is not bound to do so.
From Creative Evolution by Arthur Mitchell
