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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Blood was about to soak the earth of Australia . 21 For Raffaello Carboni all this '
blather ' and ' yabber yabber ' of a day of reckoning between the people and their
oppressors was part of the ' storm of life ' , which would blow all rottenness out ...
Blood was about to soak the earth of Australia . 21 For Raffaello Carboni all this '
blather ' and ' yabber yabber ' of a day of reckoning between the people and their
oppressors was part of the ' storm of life ' , which would blow all rottenness out ...
Page 145
He wanted to lay the foundations of science : works of art , statues and the
adornments of civilization would come after man had established his dominion
over the earth . He also had ideas on which route a party should follow if they
wished to ...
He wanted to lay the foundations of science : works of art , statues and the
adornments of civilization would come after man had established his dominion
over the earth . He also had ideas on which route a party should follow if they
wished to ...
Page 367
The Earth Abideth for Ever 367 in a state of hopeless drunkenness , and
habitually broke every one of the Ten Commandments . Such men stupefied the
minds of men with their incomprehensible dogmas about the nature of man . The
time ...
The Earth Abideth for Ever 367 in a state of hopeless drunkenness , and
habitually broke every one of the Ten Commandments . Such men stupefied the
minds of men with their incomprehensible dogmas about the nature of man . The
time ...
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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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