inborn tendency

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These are emotions common to all members of the human race, and their expression is an inborn tendency.

From The Science of Human Nature A Psychology for Beginners by Pyle, William Henry

From the foregoing paragraph, the logical conclusion would be that there is no instinct or inborn tendency that is primarily and distinctly moral as over against those that are social.

From How to Teach by Strayer, George Drayton

There is probably no inborn tendency whereby these responses of increased vigor and satisfaction are aroused in connection with any kind of activity.

From How to Teach by Strayer, George Drayton

She has all her life been intensely religious, with a strong leaning toward pietism, and illness has still further developed this inborn tendency.

From Norwegian Life by Clough, Ethlyn T.

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