Definition of "world-process" [world-process]

• A development or evolution coextensive with the duration of the world, but especially of mankind, and including all the events of universal history. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "The behavior of the world-process, he maintained, did not suggest guidance by a moral plan or purpose."
• "He rejected flatly the latter's [Hegel] view that these characteristics of the world-process indicated that it was the teleological unfolding of a design or Idea in the experience of an Absolute Mind or Spirit."
• "It is far more correct to speak of the dynamization of space rather than of the spatialization of time; the relativization of simultaneity means that “instanta - neous space,” that is, the class of simultaneously exist - ing events, cannot be unambiguously carved out of the four-dimensional world-process."