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Example sentences for "evolutionism"

Lexicographically close words:
evolute; evoluted; evolution; evolutional; evolutionary; evolutionist; evolutionists; evolutions; evolutive; evolve
  1. Now, evolutionism is really a thing of far deeper growth and older antecedents than this easy, superficial drawing-room view would lead us to imagine.

  2. It is generally understood in the best-informed circles that evolutionism consists for the most part in a belief about nature at large essentially similar to that applied by Topsy to her own origin and early history.

  3. He is, however, sadly self-contradictory and his evolutionism weakens in subsequent editions--the only ones that Darwin saw.

  4. Some have been included in the roll of honour on very slender evidence, Robinet for instance, whose evolutionism seems to us extremely dubious.

  5. Evolutionism and systematism are opposing tendencies which can never be absolutely harmonised one with the other.

  6. It must also be admitted that some of these pioneers of evolutionism did more than apply the evolution-idea as a modal formula of becoming, they began to inquire into the factors in the process.

  7. Evolutionism respecting Man and the Bible, by John T.

  8. Quinton now fill, at the same time confirming in a brilliant manner the selfsame principles of Darwinism, evolutionism and transform-ism.

  9. Evolutionism had to look for advocates in America to Spiritualists like Denton or unbelievers like Underwood at that period.

  10. For thirty years Mr. Underwood has been busily propagating evolutionism on the platform, as well as in print.

  11. I do not know whether Evolutionism can claim that amount of currency which would entitle it to be called British popular geology; but, more or less vaguely, it is assuredly present in the minds of most geologists.

  12. Apart, however, from this scientific objection to evolutionism, there is another, derived from the undue admixture of ethical notions in the very idea of progress from which evolutionism derives its charm.

  13. The predominant interest of evolutionism is in the question of human destiny, or at least of the destiny of Life.

  14. 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.

  15. But as applied to man, the theory of the struggle for existence, and survival of the fittest, though the most popular phase of evolutionism at present, is nothing less than the basest and most horrible of superstitions.

  16. In the domain of science evolutionism has like tendencies.

  17. As a reaction against materialistic evolutionism it has its use, only this evolutionism is fertile while Hegelism is absolutely sterile.

  18. To the extent that evolutionism is true, rudimentary and obsolete organs are accounted for, and the wisdom displayed in them amply vindicated; and if evolutionism be not true, they can still be explained on the theory of types.

  19. But, of course, I am aware that the vindication of my dissent would require an adequate examination of associationism and evolutionism as explanations of the origin of conscience.

  20. That is to say that neo-Lamarckism is no more able than any other form of evolutionism to solve the problem.

  21. 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.

  22. And it is also the only evolutionism that seems to us to account for the building up of identical complex organs on independent lines of development.

  23. 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.

  24. The powerful attraction that Spencerian evolutionism has exercised on contemporary thought is due to that very cause.

  25. 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.

  26. Now, of course, between a Christianity and an Evolutionism of this sort, there is an irreconcilable conflict.

  27. If that is a legitimate theory it increases our respect for what we call the inanimate, but it does not make our biological evolutionism any easier, nor are we any nearer explaining life.

  28. We have here no concern with Haeckel's evolutionary philosophy, with the way in which he combined his evolutionism and his materialism to form a queer Monism of his own.

  29. This kind of evolutionism is not only helpless before the task of accounting for it, but logically excludes the possibility of it.

  30. Asserting its method of a progressive genesis of conscience, this kind of evolutionism confesses its existence.

  31. The new evolutionism is very different from the old.

  32. The philosophy of Bergson is a reaction against the mechanical evolutionism (i.

  33. For ancient Calvinism and modern Evolutionism are essentially the same things.

  34. Unconsciously, but not accidentally, Dickens was here working out the whole true comparison between swift revolutionism in Paris and slow evolutionism in London.

  35. 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?

  36. This is a very crude form of evolutionism indeed, but it is leading up by gradual stages to the finished and all-sided philosophy of physical life, which at last definitely formulates itself through the mouth of Charles Darwin.

  37. In such cases it is easy to see how far Darwin's special conception of natural selection helps to explain and account for facts not easily explicable by the older evolutionism of mere descent with modification.

  38. As a matter of taste, Lyell did not relish the application of evolutionism to his own species.

  39. And herein consisted his great advance upon the earlier evolutionism of Lamarck, Goethe, and Erasmus Darwin.

  40. Twenty-one years had come and gone since the father of modern scientific evolutionism had launched upon the world his tentative work.

  41. 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.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "evolutionism" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    casuistry; empiricism; hedonism