Sentence:  With strong <WSD>natural</WSD> sense, and rare force of will, he found himself, when first his mind began to open, a fatherless and motherless child, the chief of a great but depressed and disheartened party, and the heir to vast and indefinite pretensions, which excited the dread and aversion of the oligarchy then supreme in the United Provinces. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Without, or prior to, modification or adjustment.