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 372
... Alfred Deakin . Like Dr Richardson , though not by nature such a ' wayward , vagrant spirit ' , he found himself in 1883 living two lives . There was Alfred Deakin , the brilliant orator , who had taken the oath of office as ...
... Alfred Deakin . Like Dr Richardson , though not by nature such a ' wayward , vagrant spirit ' , he found himself in 1883 living two lives . There was Alfred Deakin , the brilliant orator , who had taken the oath of office as ...
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... Alfred Deakin , would be a minister in the Victorian government . A Mrs Fielden prophesied in a trance that he would ... Alfred Deakin , 7 September 1890 , Deakin Papers ( MS . in NAT . L. ) ; A Few Brief Notes concerning the Delineation ...
... Alfred Deakin , would be a minister in the Victorian government . A Mrs Fielden prophesied in a trance that he would ... Alfred Deakin , 7 September 1890 , Deakin Papers ( MS . in NAT . L. ) ; A Few Brief Notes concerning the Delineation ...
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... Alfred Deakin believed he owed his early prominence in the public life of Victoria to the acumen of a soothsayer rather than to his own talents or the faith of the people at large in his liberalism . Soothsayers , palmists ...
... Alfred Deakin believed he owed his early prominence in the public life of Victoria to the acumen of a soothsayer rather than to his own talents or the faith of the people at large in his liberalism . Soothsayers , palmists ...
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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