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 361
... death penalty , the death sentence itself often being executed in some wild brawl . Chastity was also demanded of all members of the push , infidelity , prom- iscuity and adultery being punished also first with a fine , then with the ...
... death penalty , the death sentence itself often being executed in some wild brawl . Chastity was also demanded of all members of the push , infidelity , prom- iscuity and adultery being punished also first with a fine , then with the ...
Page 371
... death was able both to see and hear the living . Those who had been accustomed to think of death as the end of all whom its shadowy portals enclosed , now had to appreciate the startling reality of the existence of the living dead ...
... death was able both to see and hear the living . Those who had been accustomed to think of death as the end of all whom its shadowy portals enclosed , now had to appreciate the startling reality of the existence of the living dead ...
Page 408
... death was a wonderful thing , and to understand why old men called to death ' Come , now , look on me ' . He was conscious of going down ' to the brink of the darkness ' . Like Wentworth , the man he admired most of all the public men ...
... death was a wonderful thing , and to understand why old men called to death ' Come , now , look on me ' . He was conscious of going down ' to the brink of the darkness ' . Like Wentworth , the man he admired most of all the public men ...
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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