evolutionism

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

On every side evolutionism, in its crude form, was already in the air.

From Charles Darwin by Allen, Grant

When the truth is boiled down, it appears that Dewey's historical method, in so far as he had one, was based on biological evolutionism.

From John Dewey's logical theory by Howard, Delton Thomas