Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.
We are fashioned not by our genes, but by our environment - by the family and socio-historic conditions in which we evolve.
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.
I came from a lot of intolerance and prejudice, which aren't necessarily healthy to evolve as a human.
Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.
Attempts to construct an ethic from the rules of evolution, or from psychology and sociology, end up being simply inadequate.
However superficial prevailing views of heredity seem to be, it must be admitted that a person is indeed the bearer of inherited characteristics. This is the one aspect. He must often battle against these inherited traits and rid himself of them in order to bring to fulfillment the talents laid into him before he entered earthly existence.
Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
Genetics play a huge part in who we are. But we also have free will.