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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5 All those who were familiar with the weaknesses inherent in the division of
authority in education believed there should be one system of education ,
controlled and administered by one managing body . They believed the dual
system of ...
5 All those who were familiar with the weaknesses inherent in the division of
authority in education believed there should be one system of education ,
controlled and administered by one managing body . They believed the dual
system of ...
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in 1876 , he believed in the survival of the fittest , that those with power would '
invoke and remorselessly fulfil the inexorable law of natural selection when
exterminating the inferior Australian and Maori races ' , because these , as least
fitted to ...
in 1876 , he believed in the survival of the fittest , that those with power would '
invoke and remorselessly fulfil the inexorable law of natural selection when
exterminating the inferior Australian and Maori races ' , because these , as least
fitted to ...
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Moorhouse believed all mankind was climbing , consciously or unconsciously ,
towards the Light of the World . Christ might seem to be ' far off ' , yet ' as the
evening shadows fall ' , as that intimation of the coming of the unwelcome visitor ...
Moorhouse believed all mankind was climbing , consciously or unconsciously ,
towards the Light of the World . Christ might seem to be ' far off ' , yet ' as the
evening shadows fall ' , as that intimation of the coming of the unwelcome visitor ...
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Contents
PROLOGUE | 1 |
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE | 25 |
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| Title | A History of Australia: The earth abideth for ever, 1851-1888 Volume 4 of A History of Australia, Charles Manning Hope Clark, ISBN 0522842356, 9780522842357 Volume 4 of Dummy reekstitel |
| Author | Charles Manning Hope Clark |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Melbourne University Press, 1962 |
| ISBN | 0522841473, 9780522841473 |
| Length | 427 pages |
| Subjects | › History / Australia & New Zealand |
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