evolutionism

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Twenty-one years had come and gone since the father of modern scientific evolutionism had launched upon the world his tentative work.

From Charles Darwin by Allen, Grant

His doctrine bore indeed the name of evolutionism; it claimed to remount and redescend the course of the universal becoming; but, in fact, it dealt neither with becoming nor with evolution.

From Creative Evolution by Mitchell, Arthur

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

From Charles Darwin by Allen, Grant