Term Translation Year
jinhua
進化
evolution 1920
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Chinese

萬物之體質功用自單純至複雜循天例淘汰進變,或有限是說於有機世界,亦有推之以及於無機及心靈世界。亦用是說以解社會文辭風化等之進化。

English translation

that series of changes under natural law which involves continual progress from the homogeneous to the heterogeneous in structure and from the single and simple to the diverse and manifold in quality or function. The process is by some limited to organic beginnings; by others it is applied to the ingoranic and the psychical. It is also applied to explain the existence and growth of instituions, manners, language, civilization, and every product of human activity.

Sources

Yinghua da cidian 1920, 352

Huang Moxi 1911,

Chen Gaoyong 1937,

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