Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See extract.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
vital force .
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- noun obsolete A supposed "
growth force " invitalism .
Etymologies
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Examples
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He gave the finest expression that science has yet known -- if it has known it -- of the kernel-idea of what is called "bathmism," the idea of an
Evolution in Modern Thought Gustav Schwalbe 1880
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Mr. Cope lays great stress on the existence of a special developmental force termed "bathmism" or growth-force, which acts by means of retardation and acceleration "without any reference to fitness at all;" that "instead of being controlled by fitness it is the controller of fitness."
Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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There are a bunch of proposed theories that have been tossed bathmism, orthogenesis, aristogenesis, neo-Lamarckism, etc.
Action: Push Ohio State Board of Education to Revisit Standards - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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Cope, Dr. E.D., on non-adaptive characters, 131 on fundamental laws of growth, 420 on bathmism or growth-force, 421 on use producing structural change, 422 on law of centrifugal growth, 422 on origin of the feet of ungulates, 423 on action of animal intelligence, 425
Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
jmjarmstrong commented on the word bathmism
JM loves a nice long bathmism.
September 12, 2010