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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... moral , political and civil per- dition . There the leaguers received little if any support from the population at large . There the case against the moral evils of transportation could not be presented without blackening and defiling ...
... moral , political and civil per- dition . There the leaguers received little if any support from the population at large . There the case against the moral evils of transportation could not be presented without blackening and defiling ...
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... moral force alone would be used . The militants used much stronger language . Tom Kennedy , a bald - headed , angry man from Scotland , an Ishmael of the immigrant radicals , reminded them that they were dealing with the ' very rags and ...
... moral force alone would be used . The militants used much stronger language . Tom Kennedy , a bald - headed , angry man from Scotland , an Ishmael of the immigrant radicals , reminded them that they were dealing with the ' very rags and ...
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... moral fervour with which the early Christians had awaited the second coming of their Saviour . The supporters of government by gentlemen fumed and fretted . William Stawell turned alternately white and red with passion as he raved on ...
... moral fervour with which the early Christians had awaited the second coming of their Saviour . The supporters of government by gentlemen fumed and fretted . William Stawell turned alternately white and red with passion as he raved on ...
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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