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 improvements of civilization form what is called a social heritage, which must be impressed upon the original nature of each individual in order to have any effect.
From The Science of Human Nature A Psychology for Beginners by William Henry Pyle
Man's life to-day is subject to a great social heritage which, unlike his natural heritage, can be realized only as a result of his own activity and acquisition.
From The Social Direction of Evolution An Outline of the Science of Eugenics by William E. Kellicott
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
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
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