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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Page 236
He did not want the introduction of political economy and geometry to his fireside
. ... it would not be by turning wives and mothers into political units and bread -
winners and legalizing a further divorce of interest between man and wife , nor by
...
He did not want the introduction of political economy and geometry to his fireside
. ... it would not be by turning wives and mothers into political units and bread -
winners and legalizing a further divorce of interest between man and wife , nor by
...
Page 258
He degenerated into a political demagogue with Czar - like propensities , who
had no other object in life than to crush his political ... Martin was a ' humbug ' ,
Robertson ' s word was not to be trusted in anything , all politicians were ' mean
and ...
He degenerated into a political demagogue with Czar - like propensities , who
had no other object in life than to crush his political ... Martin was a ' humbug ' ,
Robertson ' s word was not to be trusted in anything , all politicians were ' mean
and ...
Page 260
And he would tell them another thing : the priests had more political power in
New South Wales than naturally belonged to them by virtue of their numbers .
They already had men in public life who had declared that they would not agree
to sit ...
And he would tell them another thing : the priests had more political power in
New South Wales than naturally belonged to them by virtue of their numbers .
They already had men in public life who had declared that they would not agree
to sit ...
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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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