evolutionism

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The context shows that "uniformitarianism" here means that doctrine, as limited in application by Hutton and Lyell, and that what I mean by "evolutionism" is consistent and thoroughgoing uniformitarianism.

From Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions by Huxley, Thomas H.

Even so late as 1894, a professor of biology at the University of Texas was dismissed, in violation of contract, for teaching evolutionism.

From Liberty In The Nineteenth Century by Holland, Frederic May

And evolutionism is gradually though slowly filtering downward.

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