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