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This is the Friends of Mr. Debating Society.

I am Gaias, John Bachelor and I welcome Michael Vleyhouse, Germanicus by the Thames on

a Sunday evening, winter his here, a mild winter so far in Londonium.

It is 91 AD January and we celebrate our good luck to be at the edge of the empire.

Roman is our emperor, he's unpopular with the Senate.

The optimates do not like to mission, though he's one of them.

The last of the Flavian clan, as we know, because Germanicus and I can see into the future,

2000 years into the future.

And we've been examining the Roman Empire as it plays itself out here in the first, second,

and third centuries AD.

And then the echoes of the Roman Empire that you can see through these next 2000 years

in France, Britain, and now in America.

The institutions that America treasures are Roman institutions.

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