inner nature

But great poets never discover a standard of life, a moral precept, which is not a reflex of the law of their own inner nature.

The action of his inner nature was like the turning of the needle to the pole.

Man alone can look into his inner nature, and thereby make his very failures the stepping-stones to a higher life.

Attached to mere formal facts, they provoke no hostility in the inner nature.

Let us examine the real inner nature of war, for this ought surely to throw some light upon our problem.