Or, more precisely, it was supposed that an acquired character, in virtue of such a summation of hereditary influence, would in time become congenital.
So much with regard to the acquired character, which, indeed, is not of so much importance for ethics proper as for life in the world.
But if we have finally learnt it, then we have attained to what in the world is called character, the acquired character.
On the other hand, it may be an acquired character, due to an ill-advised display of patriotism on July 4, at some time during childhood; or even to infection at the moment of birth.
An acquired character is simply a modification, due to some cause external to the germ-plasm acting on an inborn character.
Similarly small size may be an inborn character, due to a small-sized ancestry; but if the child comes of a normal ancestry and is stunted merely because of lack of proper care and food, the smallness is an acquired character.
The other one has all the inherited marks of her father's "acquired character" and condition, which even went the length in her of producing the recognized change in the form of the teeth due to this disease.
He simply holds that the transmission of "acquired character" is not proven, and he doubts the fact of these "acquired" transmissions.
Have you a record of cases where the children of your patients received the effects of the disease of the parent in a manner that would show that "acquired character or condition" is transmittible?
Music, like language, is also an acquired character, and it is probably not transmitted.
Eimer, "Every character which must have been formed through the activity of the organism is an acquired character.
But in the meantime I should wish to point out that we ought, above all, to be clear as to what we really mean by the expression ‘acquired character.
It is unnecessary to allude to those who have attacked my opinions without first understanding the real point in dispute, which turns upon the true meaning of the phrase ‘acquired character.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "acquired character" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
