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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In it Clarke made a sustained contribution to the conversation of mankind on such
universal human questions as the effect of a harsh environment on human
behaviour , why there were men with hard hearts in the world , and men like the ...
In it Clarke made a sustained contribution to the conversation of mankind on such
universal human questions as the effect of a harsh environment on human
behaviour , why there were men with hard hearts in the world , and men like the ...
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flower of life and engraved on the stone the words ' After life's fitful fever he
sleeps well'.75 In the same year that Marcus Clarke died , a young man who had
attended a lecture in Adelaide on astronomy came home quite dispirited .
flower of life and engraved on the stone the words ' After life's fitful fever he
sleeps well'.75 In the same year that Marcus Clarke died , a young man who had
attended a lecture in Adelaide on astronomy came home quite dispirited .
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Like Clarke , he believed the weird scribblings of nature in Australia were
fashioning a new race of men . But unlike Barron Field and the early men of
enlarged consciousness in Australia , he had not seen the land as cursed or left
incomplete ...
Like Clarke , he believed the weird scribblings of nature in Australia were
fashioning a new race of men . But unlike Barron Field and the early men of
enlarged consciousness in Australia , he had not seen the land as cursed or left
incomplete ...
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Contents
THE POSSESSED | 11 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE | 25 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO | 49 |
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| Title | A History of Australia: The earth abideth for ever, 1851-1888 Volume 4 of A History of Australia, Charles Manning Hope Clark, ISBN 0522842356, 9780522842357 Volume 4 of Dummy reekstitel |
| Author | Charles Manning Hope Clark |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Melbourne University Press, 1962 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 25 Jul 2011 |
| ISBN | 0522841473, 9780522841473 |
| Length | 427 pages |
| Subjects | › History / Australia & New Zealand |
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