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Evolutionist   Listen
noun
Evolutionist  n.  
1.
One skilled in evolutions.
2.
One who holds the doctrine of evolution, either in biology or in metaphysics.





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"Evolutionist" Quotes from Famous Books



... The evolutionist need not be disheartened by the thought. Nature is unexhausted. Desire and experience are ever creating new forms, new organs. A child's book of beasts will supply the requisite suggestion: the neck of the giraffe, the stripes of the tiger, the tail of the beaver may, without offence, provide analogies ...
— Mountain Meditations - and some subjects of the day and the war • L. Lind-af-Hageby
... the survival of the fittest in the struggle for existence, as an explanation of the origin of species, was from observation and experience. It was based on observed facts. But Darwin was an evolutionist—a disciple of Lamarck. He held the Key. He used the Key. The value of Darwin's work does not lie in his discovering that some bugs have been derived from other bugs and that the intermediate bugs have died off. Its overwhelming value ...
— Ancient and Modern Physics • Thomas E. Willson
... Here the evolutionist struck the note of optimism. And he suggested that laws of Progress would be found in other quarters than those where ...
— The Idea of Progress - An Inquiry Into Its Origin And Growth • J. B. Bury


Words linked to "Evolutionist" :   truster, believer


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