inborn character
Example Sentences
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It appears only in later life, but it is none the less an inborn character.
From The Story of the Living Machine A Review of the Conclusions of Modern Biology in Regard to the Mechanism Which Controls the Phenomena of Living Activity by H. W. (Herbert William) Conn
Did this change of the environment alter their inborn character?
From Applied Eugenics by Paul Popenoe
With plenty of elbow-room the Californian works out his own inborn character.
From California and the Californians by David Starr Jordan
When they rule, things do not work out in accordance with set calculation or inborn character.
From The Goose Man by Allen Wilson Porterfield
An acquired character is simply a modification, due to some cause external to the germ-plasm acting on an inborn character.
From Applied Eugenics by Paul Popenoe
