| Agapism
"Three modes of evolution have thus been brought before us: evolution by fortuitous
variation, evolution by mechanical necessity, and evolution by creative love. We may term
them tychastic evolution, or tychasm, anancastic evolution, or
anancasm, and agapastic evolution, or agapasm. The doctrines which
represent these as severally of principal importance we may term tychasticism,
anancasticism, and agapasticism. On the other hand the
mere propositions that absolute chance, mechanical necessity, and the law of love are
severally operative in the cosmos may receive the names of tychism,
anancism, and agapism." ('Evolutionary Love', CP 6.302, 1893)
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