Darwinianism

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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

Stirling's "Darwinianism, Workmen and Work" " 549 " B. Kidd's "Social Evolution" " 610 " What are Zoological Regions?

From Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 2 by Marchant, James

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

Really, what with the Tories passing Radical Reform Bills and the Church periodicals advocating Darwinianism, the millennium must be at hand.—A.R.W.

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