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

If Spencer had begun by putting to himself the question of the hereditability of acquired characters, his evolutionism would no doubt have taken an altogether different form.

From Creative Evolution by Mitchell, Arthur

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.

The Nestor of evolutionism, he had lived among two successive generations of thinkers, and over the third he ruled as king.

From Charles Darwin by Allen, Grant