evolutionism

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

From Time Magazine Archive

As a matter of taste, Lyell did not relish the application of evolutionism to his own species.

From Charles Darwin by Allen, Grant

Such hazy and indistinct thinkers as these are still really at the prior stage of Lamarckian evolutionism.

From Charles Darwin by Allen, Grant

Why was it that the 'Origin of Species' possessed this extraordinary vitalising and kinetic power, this germinal energy, this contagious force, beyond all other forms of evolutionism previously promulgated?

From Charles Darwin by Allen, Grant

The new evolutionism is very different from the old.

From Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson by Hardwick, John Charlton