evolutionism

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

From Time Magazine Archive

For thirty years Mr. Underwood has been busily propagating evolutionism on the platform, as well as in print.

From Liberty In The Nineteenth Century by Holland, Frederic May

Without him we should have had, not only evolutionism, but also, as Wallace's discovery testifies, natural selection itself into the bargain.

From Charles Darwin by Allen, Grant

This is the principle of natural selection or survival of the fittest—the great principle which Darwin and Wallace added to the evolutionism of Lamarck and his successors.

From Charles Darwin by Allen, Grant

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