evolutionism

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

From Time Magazine Archive

That is to say that neo-Lamarckism is no more able than any other form of evolutionism to solve the problem.

From Creative Evolution by Mitchell, Arthur

In thus submitting the various present forms of evolutionism to a common test, in showing that they all strike against the same insurmountable difficulty, we have in no wise the intention of rejecting them altogether.

From Creative Evolution by Mitchell, Arthur

And it is also the only evolutionism that seems to us to account for the building up of identical complex organs on independent lines of development.

From Creative Evolution by Mitchell, Arthur

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