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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... progress , and the same bewildering variety of ideas on the best means to effect a corresponding moral progress . At Beechworth in Victoria the Protestant clergymen professed their faith in tea , cheerfulness , happy homes and rational ...
... progress , and the same bewildering variety of ideas on the best means to effect a corresponding moral progress . At Beechworth in Victoria the Protestant clergymen professed their faith in tea , cheerfulness , happy homes and rational ...
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... progress . Victoria was about to vindicate her character of being the first among the Australian colonies : she would add fresh laurels to the fame of their adopted country and respond nobly to the claims of science , of humanity and of ...
... progress . Victoria was about to vindicate her character of being the first among the Australian colonies : she would add fresh laurels to the fame of their adopted country and respond nobly to the claims of science , of humanity and of ...
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... progress was the handmaiden of moral progress . Some prophesied that the overseas cable would end the other great cause of Australian backwardness - her isolation . Australians would now cease to be concerned with petty local affairs ...
... progress was the handmaiden of moral progress . Some prophesied that the overseas cable would end the other great cause of Australian backwardness - her isolation . Australians would now cease to be concerned with petty local affairs ...
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THE POSSESSED 533 | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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