Word: inborn
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Webster you will mark something little skin to the methods of today. I never had the good fortune to hear Mr. Webster. I saw him only once, but the inborn power of oratory that stood in his massive figure I could take for granted. I saw him standing on a corner and I can not remember that he was doing anything but the people in passing looked at him as if he were Bunker Hill monument...
...problems treated in a clear, concise and able manner. Des Cartes, who had named these principles Innate Truths, was the next step reached in the subject, and his theory was set forward-that one who had never expressed or even given thought to such truths might nevertheless have them inborn in him. Locke's belief that there were no innate ideas and his horror of anything mystical was the natural sequence of this. Professor Royce then considered the historical consequences of the controversy from a direct and indirect point of view...