more inborn

If the children of the cultured acquire more readily than their fellows, it is not because they have inherited parental culture, but only the inherited parental capacity for culture; not because their parents knew more, but because they had more inborn power to know.

Now that the number of chromosomes in human cells is established at 46, correcting a long-held error, variations from the normal are showing up in more and more inborn defects.

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.

In no part of the world have I seen a man of more distinguished mien, or of a more inborn dignity and elegance of address.

We would go so far, indeed, as to say that success in the song imports, necessarily, a more inborn and genuine gift of poetic conception, than the same proportion of success in other less simple modes of art.