Darwinianism

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I am going to Norwich on Tuesday to hear Dr. Hooker, who I hope will boldly promulgate "Darwinianism" in his address.

From Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 by Marchant, James

Some one, however, asked him plumply his opinion of Darwinianism, and he sententiously replied, “Darned nonsense.” "darned nonsense."

From The Idler Magazine, Volume III, April 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various

In our first youthful burst of Darwinianism we pictured our evolution as a simple procession of forms leading from ape to man.

From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court

The rickety arithmetic of Malthusianism was used against the revolutionary hope, exactly as a travestied version of Darwinianism was used in our own day against Socialism.

From Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle by Brailsford, Henry Noel

Mivart, St. George, naturalist, a Roman Catholic professor at Louvain, distinguished for his opposition to Darwinianism; b.

From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin