human
What is progress? said Vorza.
gpt
We have been happy for a thousand years and will be for another thousand if we are left alone.
human
Nothing can come of lies but failure,
gpt
We are in it to the death now,
human
Oh! that is true: so am I. And we have not the slightest prospect of failure. I only said it had a regrettable aspect, said the editor.
gpt
And I wondered if any of the people might think so, too, and not be over-anxious to join us when the moment comes!
human
Oh, Cuvas! said Vorza, in what he took for a light, bantering tone.
gpt
You always were a damned old Liberal at heart. But the people of Alsander are staunch and true, and love the old principles, the beauty of their religion, the glories of their city. They do not want their churches desecrated by an unbeliever, their city made boisterous by ugly trains, their pure torrents debased to turn buzzing ma-chines, their river bed all churned up into mud by dredgers, their virgin mountains defiled by smoke and steam.
human
But they have shown no discontent,