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In the once-upon-a-time "exceptional nation," what else is there to praise to the skies or consider our pride and joy these days except our heroes?

The tunnel project that Chris Grayling, or his successor, will soon approve or reject, is an example of a British compromise that even its most ardent champions find difficult to praise to the skies.

Reader! can you withhold pity from two poor creatures in such circumstances, and can you still praise to the skies a Book that has made the best and wisest of men cruel brutes,—who, at the same time, were happy to have a chance to make war against the Devil, by destroying two helpless beings whose only crime, in all probability, was poverty and ignorance?

Those who keep to the law they .call "willing slaves," and they praise to the skies rulers who behave like subjects and subjects who behave like lords.

But you know the style of my Dialogues: just as in those "On the Orator," which you praise to the skies, a mention of anyone by the interlocutors was impossible, unless he had been known to or heard of by them, so in the "Dialogue on the Republic," which I have begun, I have put the discussion in the mouths of Africanus, Philus, Lælius, and Manilius.