A History of Australia, Volume 4This 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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... Church of Rome , and deepest of all debasements , in servility to the Irish myrmidons of that Church ? The Age reminded its readers that the Irish Catholic , wherever he went , carried with him ' the language and spirit of disaffection ...
... Church of Rome , and deepest of all debasements , in servility to the Irish myrmidons of that Church ? The Age reminded its readers that the Irish Catholic , wherever he went , carried with him ' the language and spirit of disaffection ...
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... Church to regard not ' those things which pleased the flesh , nor those which flourished in this life ' but to long ' after the everlasting riches with their whole hope and earnest intention'.43 At the same time the ministers of the ...
... Church to regard not ' those things which pleased the flesh , nor those which flourished in this life ' but to long ' after the everlasting riches with their whole hope and earnest intention'.43 At the same time the ministers of the ...
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... Church wanted to have him tried for heresy . No sooner had the uproar amongst the men in black died down than J. C. Stewart , the representative elder of the Scots Church congregation and close friend of the learned Dr Strong let slip ...
... Church wanted to have him tried for heresy . No sooner had the uproar amongst the men in black died down than J. C. Stewart , the representative elder of the Scots Church congregation and close friend of the learned Dr Strong let slip ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 11 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 49 |
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