inborn tendency
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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.
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
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
Betty's case furnishes an illustration of an inborn tendency, fostered neither by precept nor example, persistently to attempt the impossible, and to fret and fume when forced to discontinue.
From Why Worry? by Walton, George Lincoln
An inborn tendency to scepticism did not prevent him from yielding to an influence which originally was farther removed from the inclinations of his soul than the vulgar bustle of everyday life.
From The Goose Man by Porterfield, Allen Wilson
