Word: inborn
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This did not mean that the U.S. citizen had lost his inborn distrust of authority or his dark certainty that politicians would take his gold fillings unless he guarded them with his life. In general, he had been determined to vote against somebody or something ever since the two big party conventions last summer. Having made his decision, he had then subsided into comparative, not to say lethargic, calm...
...should with diligence take note of the spirit of man, of which there are really two, that are inborn...
...patriotic values, but on Darwinism, anthropology, ethnology, Freudianism (one of Author Wylie's wilder notions is that some children should be placed on an island, "reached by tunnel from the mainland," where feeding-bottles and other nourishment will hang from bushes-giving peeking scientists a chance to study inborn faculties at their most virginal). Only when the resulting adult is thus "aware" and "conscious in the instinctual sense" will he experience true "illumination," "inward experience...
...dear," said the anthropology professors at London University to Eslanda Robeson, leftist wife of Singer Paul Robeson. She had insisted that she possessed inborn understanding of the primitive mind. "You can't possibly know the primitive mind," they said. "You see, you are European." "What d'you mean I'm European?" snapped Eslanda; "I'm Negro . , . I'm African . . . I'm what you call primitive." "You're not primitive, my dear," said the dons, "you're educated and cultured, like us." Indignant, Eslanda decided to visit Africa...
That a problem does exist is undeniable. To demand complete elimination of racial segregation in the face of inborn prejudice would be a cloudy proposal at best. But the present plan can hardly be justified as clear-headed reality. There is nothing realistic in the policy of stationing Negro soldiers in the ultra-prejudiced South, where they are excluded from many towns and proper recreation. There is nothing realistic in the policy of arming Negro MP's only with billy clubs, and then assigning white MP's with guns to patrol colored districs. There is nothing realistic in the policy...