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 48
... find a bag of gold . " Out on the track to the gold - fields there was the same excitement , the same material hardship standing between the diggers and the fulfilment of their mad dreams of not having to work for the rest of their ...
... find a bag of gold . " Out on the track to the gold - fields there was the same excitement , the same material hardship standing between the diggers and the fulfilment of their mad dreams of not having to work for the rest of their ...
Page 143
... find an abundance of profitable openings . The horticultur- ist , the cottager and the digger would everywhere obtain a fresh home . Australia was to become a society of property owners , and aspirants to property ownership . The age of ...
... find an abundance of profitable openings . The horticultur- ist , the cottager and the digger would everywhere obtain a fresh home . Australia was to become a society of property owners , and aspirants to property ownership . The age of ...
Page 147
... find the means to act up to the impulse of his heart to impress his wife so that he might win just one word of approval from her . Eyre had believed he would find out something about himself in the battle with those ' dreary wastes ...
... find the means to act up to the impulse of his heart to impress his wife so that he might win just one word of approval from her . Eyre had believed he would find out something about himself in the battle with those ' dreary wastes ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED 533 | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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