A History of Australia: The earth abideth for ever, 1851-1888This 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 274
The Age reminded its readers that the Irish Catholic , wherever he went , carried
with him ' the language and spirit of disaffection and remained ' in a remarkable
hostility to the rest of mankind ' . For the Irish Catholic , the Age maintained , the ...
The Age reminded its readers that the Irish Catholic , wherever he went , carried
with him ' the language and spirit of disaffection and remained ' in a remarkable
hostility to the rest of mankind ' . For the Irish Catholic , the Age maintained , the ...
Page 278
A few weeks later the Catholic bishops of New South Wales informed Parkes that
' school books of acknowledged merit as to secular knowledge , and approved by
the Roman Catholic Bishops , should be provided by the Council of Education ...
A few weeks later the Catholic bishops of New South Wales informed Parkes that
' school books of acknowledged merit as to secular knowledge , and approved by
the Roman Catholic Bishops , should be provided by the Council of Education ...
Page 280
One moment he was telling his Catholic friend , Charles Gavan Duffy , ' I fervently
pray to God that a way may be found ... to indulge himself with those expressions
he loved to turn on in public such as ' the Catholics were as wrong as wrong ...
One moment he was telling his Catholic friend , Charles Gavan Duffy , ' I fervently
pray to God that a way may be found ... to indulge himself with those expressions
he loved to turn on in public such as ' the Catholics were as wrong as wrong ...
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Contents
THE POSSESSED | 11 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE | 25 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO | 49 |
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