A History of Australia: The earth abideth for ever, 1851-1888Melbourne University Press, 1963 - Australia |
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... human endeavour . By contrast South Australia witnessed for a brief season the victory of human endeavour over the land . In New South Wales , Queensland , and Western Australia men wondered whether the point made by Barron Field in his ...
... human endeavour . By contrast South Australia witnessed for a brief season the victory of human endeavour over the land . In New South Wales , Queensland , and Western Australia men wondered whether the point made by Barron Field in his ...
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... human life , but rather because the Judaeo - Christian view of the world , with its teaching on human depravity , human frailty , human im- potence , and a God who punished members of his own creation with eternal torments stank in the ...
... human life , but rather because the Judaeo - Christian view of the world , with its teaching on human depravity , human frailty , human im- potence , and a God who punished members of his own creation with eternal torments stank in the ...
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... human misery , and the chances of their disappearance . J. D. Fitzgerald was a prime mover . He had none of the characteristics of a Promethean figure , but many of those of an Old Testament moralizer and prophet . By contrast the young ...
... human misery , and the chances of their disappearance . J. D. Fitzgerald was a prime mover . He had none of the characteristics of a Promethean figure , but many of those of an Old Testament moralizer and prophet . By contrast the young ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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