evolutionism

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Even so late as 1894, a professor of biology at the University of Texas was dismissed, in violation of contract, for teaching evolutionism.

From Liberty In The Nineteenth Century by Holland, Frederic May

In thus submitting the various present forms of evolutionism to a common test, in showing that they all strike against the same insurmountable difficulty, we have in no wise the intention of rejecting them altogether.

From Creative Evolution by Mitchell, Arthur

But both these sorts of evolutionism have in common the emphasis on progress, that is, upon a continual change from the worse to the better, or from the simpler to the more complex.

From Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Russell, Bertrand

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