Sentences with phrase «fixed by inheritance»
«Looking to future generations,» he wrote, «there is no cause to fear that the social instincts will grow weaker, and we may expect that virtuous habits will grow stronger, becoming perhaps fixed by inheritance... [so that] virtue will be triumphant.»
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Yet within a framework of disparate biological inheritance fixed by nature and of disparate social inheritance which is the result of both biological and human forces, the democratic ideal requires that every person be given an opportunity to experience the «abundant life» and do the work for which he is best fitted.
But while the proportion of one's inheritance from parents is fixed by exact necessity, the fraction from grandparents is governed by chance.