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.   anvd [Please select]

The predominant interest of evolutionism is in the question of human destiny, or at least of the destiny of Life.   anvd [Please select]

Evolutionism, in spite of its appeals to particular scientific facts, fails to be a truly scientific philosophy because of its slavery to time, its ethical preoccupations, and its predominant interest in our mundane concerns and destiny.   anvd [Please select]

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.   anvd [Please select]

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.   anvd [Please select]

I leave to evolutionism, atavism and other transcendental "isms" the honour and also the risk of explaining what I humbly recognize as being too far beyond my grasp.   anvd [Please select]