(1) The family is connatural to man and was instituted by God.(2) This a priori orientation toward being - with its implicit pre-conceptual awareness of being by connatural affinity and desire, as we know a good by being drawn to it - is a genuine a priori presence of being to the human mind constitutive of its very nature as a dynamic faculty.(3) Innate is a word he poorly plays upon: the right word, though less used, is connatural .(4) What he calls not innate, but connatural qualities of the human character, was, during the latter part of the last century, entirely rejected; but of late there appears a tendency to return to the notion consecrated by antiquity.(5) Thus it is plain that it is the connatural mode of the human soul to receive knowledge as a habit.(6) But her limbs have internalized the aesthetic of the dance; beautiful movement, or at least beautiful movement of that kind, has become connatural .(7) In fact, in the post-lapsarian situation, even ‘ connatural ’ moral actions require some sort of gracious assistance.(8) As man, He was the ‘perfect connatural principle of all forces of supernatural activity.’(9) Since this change of perspective cannot be obtained in years but in generations, we believe in connatural pedagogics.(10) Hence, this law is promulgated through our connatural knowledge, and it is called ‘natural’ because obedience to it leads us toward the good that we desire by nature.(11) That's why photos, in contrast, make great backgrounds and fills for sharp-edged text and geometric primitives, and that's why soft gradients and blurring seem so connatural to digitized photography.(12) The common principles of prudence, indeed, are connatural to man; but other principles of a practical kind are acquired by experience or instruction.(13) Women can integrate the contemplative and active connaturally through maternity and the works of mercy that are associated with domestic life.(14) This is actually a distortion of the female personality, which is destined to unfold connaturally in motherhood.(15) Thus we begin, connaturally as it were, to experience the presence of God in all things, the presence of Christ in each person we meet.(16) For the pre-capitalist man, this ‘limitless’ material desire is seen as irrational, since he connaturally recognizes that he has a strictly limited number of needs to be satisfied in the measure demanded by his station in life.
