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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intellectual and spiritual future of Victoria shall be stultified and besotted ,
dwarfed and degraded , and her sons bound in eternal servility to the Church of
Rome , and deepest of all debasements , in servility to the Irish myrmidons of that
...
intellectual and spiritual future of Victoria shall be stultified and besotted ,
dwarfed and degraded , and her sons bound in eternal servility to the Church of
Rome , and deepest of all debasements , in servility to the Irish myrmidons of that
...
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nothing for the kingdom of God , the bishops and the priests continued to counsel
the members of Christ's Church to regard not ' those things which pleased the
flesh , nor those which flourished in this life ' but to long after the everlasting
riches ...
nothing for the kingdom of God , the bishops and the priests continued to counsel
the members of Christ's Church to regard not ' those things which pleased the
flesh , nor those which flourished in this life ' but to long after the everlasting
riches ...
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By then the Church spoke with a bewildering variety of voices . While the Bulletin
was blaring forth its appeal to the clergy to save Australians from the
consequences of their convict past and their restless , frenetic pleasure - seeking
present ...
By then the Church spoke with a bewildering variety of voices . While the Bulletin
was blaring forth its appeal to the clergy to save Australians from the
consequences of their convict past and their restless , frenetic pleasure - seeking
present ...
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Contents
THE POSSESSED | 11 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE | 25 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO | 49 |
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A History of Australia: The earth abideth for ever, 1851-1888 Charles Manning Hope Clark No preview available - 1962 |
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