Evolutionism Definition

Evolutionism Sentence Examples

• Moreover, whatever the value of Goethe's labours in that field, they were not published before 1820, long after evolutionism had taken a new departure from the works of Treviranus and Lamarck - the first of its advocates who were equipped for their task with the needful large and accurate knowledge of the phenomena of life as a whole.

• In other words, in spite of his intentions he does not succeed in giving a metaphysic of evolutionism.

• Then, agreeing with evolutionism, that things are necessarily determined by forces, but with Leibnitz that body is merely passive,.

• His reactionary and retarding ideas as a special creationist and his advocacy of the cataclysmic theory of change exerted a baneful influence until overthrown by the uniformitarianism of James Hutton (1726-1797) and Charles Lyell (1797-1875) and the evolutionism of Darwin.