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 Arthur Mitchell
That double communication marks the date of birth of modern evolutionism.
From Charles Darwin by Grant Allen
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 Arthur Mitchell
The context shows that "uniformitarianism" here means that doctrine, as limited in application by Hutton and Lyell, and that what I mean by "evolutionism" is consistent and thoroughgoing uniformitarianism.
From Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions by Thomas H. Huxley
