A History of Australia: The earth abideth for ever, 1851-1888This fourth volume continues the story [of the history of Australia] from the discovery of gold in February 1851 to the centenary of the coming of European civilization to Australia on January 26 1888. Its vital theme concerns the debate in Australian about the life of man without God; and the impending breakdown of bourgeois society, succeeded by an age of ruins. |
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intellectual and spiritual future of Victoria shall be stultified and besotted ,
dwarfed and degraded , and her sons bound in eternal servility to the Church of
Rome , and deepest of all debasements , in servility to the Irish myrmidons of that
...
intellectual and spiritual future of Victoria shall be stultified and besotted ,
dwarfed and degraded , and her sons bound in eternal servility to the Church of
Rome , and deepest of all debasements , in servility to the Irish myrmidons of that
...
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On 24 September 1866 he met the clergy charged with the cure of souls in the
Sydney district and the lay members of the doomed Denominational Schools
Board to exchange mind with them in the Church House in Sydney : The lord
bishop ...
On 24 September 1866 he met the clergy charged with the cure of souls in the
Sydney district and the lay members of the doomed Denominational Schools
Board to exchange mind with them in the Church House in Sydney : The lord
bishop ...
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For Perry this was a ' hideous superstructure of superstition and almost idolatry ' ,
which grieved and alarmed every intelligent member of the Church . 16 The
apologists for Christ ' s Church were often distinguished by the vagueness of their
...
For Perry this was a ' hideous superstructure of superstition and almost idolatry ' ,
which grieved and alarmed every intelligent member of the Church . 16 The
apologists for Christ ' s Church were often distinguished by the vagueness of their
...
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PROLOGUE | 1 |
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE | 25 |
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