Sentences with phrase «acquired by their forebears»

Young people who, as adults, merely retain the same level of upper - middle - class success that their parents have can regard themselves as standing still or coasting on the momentum acquired by their forebears.

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The point of all this is that dominance is the one animal instinct the human race either inherited from its primate forebears and retained after losing all the other instincts, or acquired by imitating this animal behavior when the human race fell from a higher nature.