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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... material progress was transplanted from the city to the country ; others had shunned it as a monster . In the United States Bret Harte had conceived the image of the bear , symbol of the old rural California , standing between the iron ...
... material progress was transplanted from the city to the country ; others had shunned it as a monster . In the United States Bret Harte had conceived the image of the bear , symbol of the old rural California , standing between the iron ...
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... material progress and political unity . Parkes could not let the occasion pass without ' riding the high horse ' on the superiority of New South Wales over Victoria by pouring forth the vial of his witty tongue at the expense of the ...
... material progress and political unity . Parkes could not let the occasion pass without ' riding the high horse ' on the superiority of New South Wales over Victoria by pouring forth the vial of his witty tongue at the expense of the ...
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... material wealth all the material wants of humanity would be satisfied , he could not go along with them . It did not follow , he said in July 1885 , that if all the loaves in the world were divided equally among all the eaters , man ...
... material wealth all the material wants of humanity would be satisfied , he could not go along with them . It did not follow , he said in July 1885 , that if all the loaves in the world were divided equally among all the eaters , man ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 11 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 49 |
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