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

Darwin's Origin of Species appeared in 1859, and marked another step in Spencer's evolutionism.

From Herbert Spencer by Thomson, J. Arthur (John Arthur)

And evolutionism is gradually though slowly filtering downward.

From Charles Darwin by Allen, Grant

The predominant interest of evolutionism is in the question of human destiny, or at least of the destiny of Life.

From Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Russell, Bertrand