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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Page 71
... things unseen ' from all this clatter and uproar , from all these pigmies chasing their vulgar titillations . He spent his leisure contemplating the mystery at the heart of things and asking himself that eternal question of what life ...
... things unseen ' from all this clatter and uproar , from all these pigmies chasing their vulgar titillations . He spent his leisure contemplating the mystery at the heart of things and asking himself that eternal question of what life ...
Page 107
... things spiritual and their abhorrence of all things carnal , Henry Wallen , the one - time ' governor ' of Kangaroo Island was breathing his last in a suburb of Adelaide . Ever since Samuel Stephens had bought him out of his idyllic ...
... things spiritual and their abhorrence of all things carnal , Henry Wallen , the one - time ' governor ' of Kangaroo Island was breathing his last in a suburb of Adelaide . Ever since Samuel Stephens had bought him out of his idyllic ...
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... thing . It never occurred to him that any of those ' living things ' , least of all those original tenants of the deserts he was to traverse , the Australian aborigines , could teach him how to live off the land . The white man was ...
... thing . It never occurred to him that any of those ' living things ' , least of all those original tenants of the deserts he was to traverse , the Australian aborigines , could teach him how to live off the land . The white man was ...
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THE POSSESSED | 11 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 49 |
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