social heritage
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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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 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
But they have nevertheless played their part in creating as part of the social heritage a diffused sense of the reality of supernatural intercourse.
From Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development by Cohen, Chapman
We must remember how much of man's advance is dependent on the external registration of the social heritage, not on the slowly changing natural inheritance.
From The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told by Thomson, J. Arthur
We may get a clear idea of the way a man attains his social heritage by dropping figure for the present and speaking in the terms of plain natural science.
From The Story of the Mind by Baldwin, James Mark
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