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The Social PrincipleEarly Modern History | Speech | The Erosophic Society of the University of Alabama | 1843 William Gilmore Simms delivered his lecture The Social Principle: The True Source of National Permanence to the Erosophic Society[1] at the University of Alabama on 13 December 1842 during the occasion of his receiving an honorary LL.D. degree from that university.[2] An important text in Simms studies, this oration marks “Simms’s single most extensive published exposition of his social philosophy.”[3] He took as the genesis for his talk what he perceived as the fundamentally changed nature of the environs of western Alabama from his previous visit to the area, ... |