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Lately, this view, "cultural evolutionism," has been revived and given a new vocabulary.

From Time Magazine Archive

For thirty years Mr. Underwood has been busily propagating evolutionism on the platform, as well as in print.

From Liberty In The Nineteenth Century by Holland, Frederic May

His doctrine bore indeed the name of evolutionism; it claimed to remount and redescend the course of the universal becoming; but, in fact, it dealt neither with becoming nor with evolution.

From Creative Evolution by Mitchell, Arthur

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

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




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