organicism
noun
the view that some systems resemble organisms in having parts that function in relation to the whole to which they belong.
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This humiliating form of idolatry is practised by the school of sociologists known as organicistic, as well as by the practical politicians.
From Morals and the Evolution of Man by Max Simon Nordau