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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... eyes of the white observers . The conviction amongst the white population that the original race was fast dying out probably helped them to cast a tolerant and at times even an amused eye over the people when they hung round the town ...
... eyes of the white observers . The conviction amongst the white population that the original race was fast dying out probably helped them to cast a tolerant and at times even an amused eye over the people when they hung round the town ...
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... eye for a pretty woman . When he climbed into his carriage to set out for more good food and more good wine at a ... eyes of the men who had missed out . The great fear was to ' bottom on a " shicer " . The sudden transitions from ...
... eye for a pretty woman . When he climbed into his carriage to set out for more good food and more good wine at a ... eyes of the men who had missed out . The great fear was to ' bottom on a " shicer " . The sudden transitions from ...
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... eyes as to make him wonder whether his life was of any value at all in the eyes of ' The Mighty Maker ' . Depressed by this loneliness , this isolation , he consulted a clergyman but got no satisfaction from that quarter . He wondered ...
... eyes as to make him wonder whether his life was of any value at all in the eyes of ' The Mighty Maker ' . Depressed by this loneliness , this isolation , he consulted a clergyman but got no satisfaction from that quarter . He wondered ...
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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