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 321
... civilization , such as the British , always ' marched over the bodies of the inferior races ' . A race which had been described as ' the lowest now on earth representative of savage humanity ' must decay and disappear before the advance ...
... civilization , such as the British , always ' marched over the bodies of the inferior races ' . A race which had been described as ' the lowest now on earth representative of savage humanity ' must decay and disappear before the advance ...
Page 334
... civilization were using the Galilean fisherman in their long fight against the bush barbarians . As the train pulled out at last to take Ned first to Beechworth through that country whose beauty once again brought out the poet in him ...
... civilization were using the Galilean fisherman in their long fight against the bush barbarians . As the train pulled out at last to take Ned first to Beechworth through that country whose beauty once again brought out the poet in him ...
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... civilization could find the right var- nish with which to coat the underlying barbarism . The large towns on the sea - coast ministered stimulants of all kinds to a people whose craving for excitement had been aggravated by the ...
... civilization could find the right var- nish with which to coat the underlying barbarism . The large towns on the sea - coast ministered stimulants of all kinds to a people whose craving for excitement had been aggravated by the ...
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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