inborn character

An acquired character is simply a modification, due to some cause external to the germ-plasm acting on an inborn character.

Let us take up a sovereign at the moment when its natural, inborn character has been slightly affected.

When they rule, things do not work out in accordance with set calculation or inborn character.

It appears only in later life, but it is none the less an inborn character.

Did this change of the environment alter their inborn character?