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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Page 283
... religious instruction of children by a minister of religion of their persuasion , such instruction to be voluntary.22 While Protestants agonized in public over whether they could dare to allow God's book to be taken out of the public ...
... religious instruction of children by a minister of religion of their persuasion , such instruction to be voluntary.22 While Protestants agonized in public over whether they could dare to allow God's book to be taken out of the public ...
Page 304
... religion anathematized Stewart and Strong . In 1883 Strong joined a society formed in Melbourne to agitate for the opening of the public library and the museum on a Sunday . Again other ministers accused him of opposing doctrines which ...
... religion anathematized Stewart and Strong . In 1883 Strong joined a society formed in Melbourne to agitate for the opening of the public library and the museum on a Sunday . Again other ministers accused him of opposing doctrines which ...
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... religion could no longer be used to work the great marvel of taming the wild beast in a man . Men were already fast abandoning religious belief as a delusion . He put this explicitly in his last contribution to the great debate of his ...
... religion could no longer be used to work the great marvel of taming the wild beast in a man . Men were already fast abandoning religious belief as a delusion . He put this explicitly in his last contribution to the great debate of his ...
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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