connatural

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Thus the human mind has no criterion of truth within itself, no elements of knowledge which are connatural and inborn.

From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by Cocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)

It is that primitive life which was most connatural to the soul of man, which sin did deprive us of.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh

Now it is connatural to a human soul to receive species of a lesser universality than the angels receive; so that it knows different specific natures by different intelligible species.

From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

And hence to use comparison and discursion is connatural to the souls of the blessed, but not to angels.

From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

For the theological virtues are in relation to Divine happiness, what the natural inclination is in relation to the connatural end.

From Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint