cosmismn.
/ˈkɒzmɪz(ə)m/ 1. The conception of the cosmos or ‘order of nature’ as a self-existent, self-acting whole; the theory which explains the cosmos or universe solely according to the methods of positive science.
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the world > the universe > cosmology > science of observation > theory > [noun]
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1861 G. J. Holyoake Limits of Atheism (1874) 7 To believe in Nature, in its self-existence, its self-subsistence, its self-action, its eternity, infinity, and materiality, and in that only, is Affirmative Atheism. Note. This might stand for a definition of Cosmism.
1861 G. J. Holyoake Limits of Atheism (1874) Pref. Cosmism, as well as Secularism, expresses a new form of Freethought.
1861 W. Gresley Sophron & Neologus 74 The new notion of Affirmative Atheism, or Cosmism.
1874 J. Fiske Outl. Cosmic Philos. I. 184 In the progress from Anthropomorphism to Cosmism the religious attitude remains unchanged from the beginning to the end.
2. (See quot. 1873: formed after patriotism.)
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1873 Ruskin in Contemp. Rev. XXI. 928 The name of the emotion would then be properly ‘Cosmism’, and would signify the resolution of such a people to sacrifice its own special interests to those of Mankind.
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