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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... man to raise him from barbarism to civilization . He had become bitter about the fate of his people , always the recipients of the crumbs that fell from the white man's table , and never entitled to sit down as equals with the white man ...
... man to raise him from barbarism to civilization . He had become bitter about the fate of his people , always the recipients of the crumbs that fell from the white man's table , and never entitled to sit down as equals with the white man ...
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... man's precious stock , ' monkeyfied men ' who could not be taught to be useful members of the working classes . They were disgracing the society they were intended to serve , and becoming themselves so hopelessly corrupted and degraded ...
... man's precious stock , ' monkeyfied men ' who could not be taught to be useful members of the working classes . They were disgracing the society they were intended to serve , and becoming themselves so hopelessly corrupted and degraded ...
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... man who knew men wanted bread , who knew men now expected hap- piness here on earth , was too much a prisoner of the teaching about man's depravity to have confidence in his powers to walk once again in the gardens of paradise . 19 The ...
... man who knew men wanted bread , who knew men now expected hap- piness here on earth , was too much a prisoner of the teaching about man's depravity to have confidence in his powers to walk once again in the gardens of paradise . 19 The ...
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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