inborn tendency

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Of these three forces, the first is the result of an inborn tendency to deviate from the ancestral type; an orderly process with a definite intention, by no means a mere chance fluctuation.

From Household Administration Its Place in the Higher Education of Women by Various

In no way was Norman's luck superior to most men's more splendidly than in that his inborn tendency to arrogant and extravagant desires was matched by an inborn capacity to get the necessary money.

From The Grain of Dust by Phillips, David Graham

Bullying as an original tendency seems to add nothing to the possibilities of development, but every other inborn tendency has its value.

From How to Teach by Strayer, George Drayton

His youth showed again how much more inborn tendency has to do with one's life than any external forces—such as guardianship, means, and what we call education.

From Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z by Various

In fact, Professor Cook has recently suggested that the inborn tendency to variation is sufficient in itself to account for evolution, this tendency being either repressed or stimulated as external conditions are stable or variable.

From Animals of the Past by Lucas, Frederic A.