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
Children need the Bible as a part of their social heritage.
From Religious Education in the Family by Henry Frederick Cope
The social heritage is, of course, all that a man or woman gets from the accumulated wisdom of society.
From The Story of the Mind by James Mark Baldwin
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 Chapman Cohen
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
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