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All this is a chain of highly logical deductions, and it hangs together with a certain air of reality, such as we like to look for in a host of "transformist" arguments which are put forward as irrefutable.

Social Life in the Insect World Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

If I were a "transformist" how I should delight in this question!

Social Life in the Insect World Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

The basic idea I intended to communicate was that it should not be accepted without argument that "The notion of" species "is most logically consistent with a creationist view," and even that it is also not the case that it is "more consistent" with a creationist view than with a transformist view.

At What Level did this Evolve? 2009

German Naturphilosophen, embodied the notion of successive creation or spontaneous generation of kinds, and hence were not transformist.

EVOLUTIONISM THOMAS A. GOUDGE 1968

There is the stumbling-block of the usual transformist theories, and Mr Bergson devotes to it a closely argued and singularly penetrating criticism, by an example which he analyses in detail.

A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson Edouard Louis Emmanuel Julien Le Roy 1912

So that, all things considered, the transformist hypothesis looks more and more like a close approximation to the truth.

Evolution créatrice. English Henri Bergson 1900

Buffon, like many another man, from St. Augustine down to his own times, considered the transformist explanation of living nature.

Science and Morals and Other Essays Bertram Coghill Alan Windle 1893

Lamarck_ and a _Dîner Lamarck_, to maintain and perpetuate the memory of the great French transformist.

Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work 1872

This is what I should say if I were a "transformist."

Social Life in the Insect World Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

I am a customer experience transformist; helping large organizations improve business results by changing how they deal with customers.

Customer Experience Matters 2010