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 29
There the case against the moral evils of transportation could not be presented
without blackening and defiling four ... Every harangue by the leaguers against
the morals of convicts strengthened the prejudice of employers against hiring ex
...
There the case against the moral evils of transportation could not be presented
without blackening and defiling four ... Every harangue by the leaguers against
the morals of convicts strengthened the prejudice of employers against hiring ex
...
Page 63
They would rely on moral force . They would send a delegation to Melbourne to
make sure the next month was the last month the gold diggers of Victoria would
ever be called upon to pay the licence fee of 30s a month . The meeting broke up
...
They would rely on moral force . They would send a delegation to Melbourne to
make sure the next month was the last month the gold diggers of Victoria would
ever be called upon to pay the licence fee of 30s a month . The meeting broke up
...
Page 104
Chapman was one of those philosophical radicals with an itch to improve the
morals of mankind by that great ... a campaign they waged with the same moral
fervour with which the early Christians had awaited the second coming of their ...
Chapman was one of those philosophical radicals with an itch to improve the
morals of mankind by that great ... a campaign they waged with the same moral
fervour with which the early Christians had awaited the second coming of their ...
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Contents
THE POSSESSED | 11 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE | 25 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO | 49 |
Copyright | |
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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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