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
Admitting the wrong that they had suffered in the past, it invited them to a new life under new conditions, offering them, on just and equal terms, their share in the social heritage.
From Equality by Bellamy, Edward
Nor is it enough that we strive to perfect the individual membership of the Church and preserve the social heritage out of the past—we assume to become the teachers of the world.
From Principles of Teaching by Bennion, Adam S.
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
They bit deeply in to social institutions; the temper of mind they induced became part of our social heritage.
From Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development by Cohen, Chapman
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