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Excerpt from Annual Address Before the Euphradian and Clariosophic Societies of the South Carolina College: December 1853
The great truths which have controlled the destiny of man have been born to the earth at remote periods, often in obscure places, are few in number, and have required whole epochs for their maturity. By such truths, I do not mean merely the results of human action, or the causes leading to and in?uencing those results.' 'alexander's Universal Mon archy was a fact - a result - but far from being a truth. The existing European political system is a great and prevailing fact; but who says its confederative principle of exclusive legitimacy is any more a truth than was the single universal rule of Macedonia or Rome, or that its in dividual monarchical despotisms are political truths? The philosophy of Confucius rules a fourth of mankind, yet it is not a truth.
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