evolutionism

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It remains that I should put before you what I understand to be the third phase of geological speculation—namely, Evolutionism.

From Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews by Huxley, Thomas Henry

I shall call one of them Catastrophism, another Uniformitarianism, the third Evolutionism; and I shall try briefly to sketch the characters of each, that you may say whether the classification is, or is not, exhaustive.

From Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews by Huxley, Thomas Henry

So we are disposed to think it is with regard to the popular form of Evolutionism.

From The Faith of the Millions (2nd series) by Tyrrell, George

By no one has this conclusion been more clearly stated than by Lamarck, the real father of Organic Evolutionism, whom many would therefore represent as an atheist.

From The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer by Gerard, John S.J.

I shall call one of them Catastrophisim another Uniformitarianism, the third Evolutionism; and I shall try briefly to sketch the characters of each, that you may say whether the classification is, or is not, exhaustive.

From Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of T. H. Huxley by Huxley, T. H.