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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... defence of the great ' interests ' of society . He had also read Alexis de Tocqueville and accepted his point that the great problem for conservatives in a New World or colonial society was to devise political institutions that would ...
... defence of the great ' interests ' of society . He had also read Alexis de Tocqueville and accepted his point that the great problem for conservatives in a New World or colonial society was to devise political institutions that would ...
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... defence he began to wear on his face that ' peculiarly captivating grin ' of the man whose only chance was to remain ingratiating . By contrast another man who was tormented all his life by a sense of shame in his family's past ...
... defence he began to wear on his face that ' peculiarly captivating grin ' of the man whose only chance was to remain ingratiating . By contrast another man who was tormented all his life by a sense of shame in his family's past ...
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Charles Manning Hope Clark. Defence of Mental Freedom and The Real Place in History of Jesus and Paul he reiterated two ... Defence of Mental Freedom ( Melbourne , 1867 ) ; E. W. Cole , An Essay on the Deluge ( Melbourne , 1870 ) ; Cole ...
Charles Manning Hope Clark. Defence of Mental Freedom and The Real Place in History of Jesus and Paul he reiterated two ... Defence of Mental Freedom ( Melbourne , 1867 ) ; E. W. Cole , An Essay on the Deluge ( Melbourne , 1870 ) ; Cole ...
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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