by its own nature

Yet political statement soon devolved into exhibitionist spectacle — partly by its own nature, and partly by human nature — proving that even in New York City, more than two decades after the New York State Court of Appeals ruled that toplessness is legal for women, taking advantage of that right still has the power to shock.

He is not being petulant or spiteful, he actually is like that wounded creature at the end of the horror movie that knows it is doomed by its own nature.

I firmly and religiously believe, that God is the Creator of all Things visible and invisible; that his Power is infinite, and that nothing induc’d him to create the World, but his mere Goodness, which he was indeed pleas’d to communicate to the Things that he created: He form’d the Body of Man from the Clay of the Earth, and dispos’d it in such a manner, that it was capable of being immortal and impassible, not by its own Nature, but thro’ special Grace.

It is necessarily confined within limits which, while not easy to define theoretically, are none the less precise and fixed; for the great religious creations are organisms, and every organism carries in itself, determined by its own nature, the exact capacity of its metamorphoses.

I will endeavour to show that among musical instruments this "kingship," as regards the organ, held good in a parallel way,—that by its own nature as to construction, by its very faults and weaknesses, by the mission it was called upon to fulfil, it did, in very fact, long reign supreme as king of instruments.