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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Page 179
The lovely valleys and fertile plains of the habitable districts of Australia took on
the appearance of graveyards of human endeavour . Because of their failure to
produce enough to keep body and soul together , the poorer class of selectors ...
The lovely valleys and fertile plains of the habitable districts of Australia took on
the appearance of graveyards of human endeavour . Because of their failure to
produce enough to keep body and soul together , the poorer class of selectors ...
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The corresponding reduction in human suffering weakened mankind's need for
and dependence on a ' Comforter ' , or any promise of compensation in a future
life for all they were called on to endure in this world . Some were deeply troubled
...
The corresponding reduction in human suffering weakened mankind's need for
and dependence on a ' Comforter ' , or any promise of compensation in a future
life for all they were called on to endure in this world . Some were deeply troubled
...
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The Earth Abideth for Ever 399 who took a naïve , simplistic view of the sources
of human misery , and the chances of their disappearance . J. D. Fitzgerald was a
prime mover . He had none of the characteristics of a Promethean figure , but ...
The Earth Abideth for Ever 399 who took a naïve , simplistic view of the sources
of human misery , and the chances of their disappearance . J. D. Fitzgerald was a
prime mover . He had none of the characteristics of a Promethean figure , but ...
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Contents
THE POSSESSED | 11 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE | 25 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO | 49 |
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