evolutionism

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Why was it that the 'Origin of Species' possessed this extraordinary vitalising and kinetic power, this germinal energy, this contagious force, beyond all other forms of evolutionism previously promulgated?

From Charles Darwin by Allen, Grant

For a true evolutionism would propose to discover by what modus vivendi, gradually obtained, the intellect has adopted its plan of structure, and matter its mode of subdivision.

From Creative Evolution by Mitchell, Arthur

In assuming dogmatically a certain answer to this question, evolutionism ceases to be scientific, yet it is only in touching on this question that evolutionism reaches the subject-matter of philosophy.

From Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy by Russell, Bertrand

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