social heritage
Americannoun
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Man is part of nature, product of his social heritage, culture and environment . . . and religion is deemed to consist of 'those actions, purposes and experiences which are humanly significant.'
From Time Magazine Archive
The logger is coming to recognize his social responsibility, timber is being utilized as a social heritage to be managed for posterity, and the isolation of the camps has been ended.
From Paul Bunyan and His Loggers by Cloice R. Howd
Now, if this be the social heritage, we may go on to ask: Who are to inherit it?
From The Story of the Mind by James Mark Baldwin
The democratic ideals they expressed in institutional forms—social, political or religious—belonged, of course, to the social heritage they brought with them from the old country.
From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 by Various
This is done in virtue of a mass of prepared knowledge, slowly accumulated by preceding generations, and which forms part of his social heritage.
From Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development by Chapman Cohen
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