Sentence examples for mental endowment from inspiring English sources

Until we get such a machine we'll probably have to plug along as usual, with the limited mental endowment God gave us.

Chomsky pointed out that, similarly, it was absurd to suppose that Skinner-style training was more important in the development of language than human beings' native mental endowment.

I needed to show how understanding has grown since the 1920s that when it comes to our mental abilities, we are not made up of classes or races or genders that vary in our genetic mental endowment.

Darwin writes that "It is, indeed, fortunate that the law of the equal transmission of characters to both sexes prevails with mammals; otherwise it is probable that man would have become as superior in mental endowment to women, as the peacock is in ornamental plumage to the peahen" (Darwin, 1871, 565).

She was born with a fine mind and a bright wit, and by help of Miss Sullivan's amazing gifts as a teacher this mental endowment has been developed until the result is what we see to-day: a stone deaf, dumb, and blind girl who is equipped with a wide and various and complete university education—a wonderful creature who sees without eyes, hears without ears, and speaks with dumb lips.

The topic might have been intelligence or mental illness, and the question was framed in terms of whether this attribute of our lives was due to our genetic endowment or to what we had learned in the world.

The Harvard University endowment.

Israel Endowment Funds, Inc.

ENDOWMENT IN 2010 Columbia: $6.516 billion.

We have a healthy endowment.

So did the athletic endowment.