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The Spartan society was evolutionally much in advance of the Ionian societies; the Dorian patriarchal clan having been dissolved at some very early period.

From Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation by Hearn, Lafcadio

He is so far removed, evolutionally, from the stomach stage that his stomach is as much a remnant with him as the brain is a rudiment with the extreme Alimentive.

From How to Analyze People on Sight Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five Human Types by Benedict, Elsie Lincoln

The choice of the dead, evolutionally considered, would be a choice based upon remembrance rather than on prescience.

From Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints by Hearn, Lafcadio

We might say the very same thing about any human emotion; every emotion can be evolutionally traced back to simple and selfish impulses shared by man with the lower animals.

From Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn by Hearn, Lafcadio