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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... face of such delicacy , mildness and sweetness that those in his company felt they were in the presence of a cherub , an angel who had been vouchsafed a vision of God's throne . He was kind to drunks , whom he sheltered from the abuse ...
... face of such delicacy , mildness and sweetness that those in his company felt they were in the presence of a cherub , an angel who had been vouchsafed a vision of God's throne . He was kind to drunks , whom he sheltered from the abuse ...
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... face who was careful not to let anyone see what went on at those moments in life when he wore his private face . He had always been a solitary and a shy man . In the years when he had worked behind a counter in a shop he had read ...
... face who was careful not to let anyone see what went on at those moments in life when he wore his private face . He had always been a solitary and a shy man . In the years when he had worked behind a counter in a shop he had read ...
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... face of the secular and materialistic tendencies of the age , the Church replied not with rational argument but with an emotional bath , together with the reminder that without religion there would be no morality , because without ...
... face of the secular and materialistic tendencies of the age , the Church replied not with rational argument but with an emotional bath , together with the reminder that without religion there would be no morality , because without ...
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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