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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... Adam Lindsay Gordon , searching for something to believe in to replace the faiths which were fast disappearing , called for a death - drink to ' a brave man gone where we all must go ' . Far away in his native county the Galway ...
... Adam Lindsay Gordon , searching for something to believe in to replace the faiths which were fast disappearing , called for a death - drink to ' a brave man gone where we all must go ' . Far away in his native county the Galway ...
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... Adam Lindsay Gordon , a descendant of those Gordons of Scotland who put into his head the idea that no Gordon ever stooped ' to the baser crowd ' , was excluded from the race because he was not a landowner . Another young man , whose ...
... Adam Lindsay Gordon , a descendant of those Gordons of Scotland who put into his head the idea that no Gordon ever stooped ' to the baser crowd ' , was excluded from the race because he was not a landowner . Another young man , whose ...
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... Adam Lindsay Gordon ' , Westminster Review , February 1906 ; F. Adams , Adam Lindsay Gordon Newspaper Cuttings ( M.L. ) ; O. Wilde , ' Adam Lindsay Gor- don ' , Pall Mall Gazette , 25 March 1889 ; H. Kendall , ' Dedication ' , in Leonie ...
... Adam Lindsay Gordon ' , Westminster Review , February 1906 ; F. Adams , Adam Lindsay Gordon Newspaper Cuttings ( M.L. ) ; O. Wilde , ' Adam Lindsay Gor- don ' , Pall Mall Gazette , 25 March 1889 ; H. Kendall , ' Dedication ' , in Leonie ...
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THE POSSESSED 533 | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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