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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Charles Manning Hope Clark. and the rule of law to the savages of New Holland . When these two ' ignorant and miserable savages ' were launched into eternity inside Perth Gaol in that month , he thought that perhaps in the minds of these ...
Charles Manning Hope Clark. and the rule of law to the savages of New Holland . When these two ' ignorant and miserable savages ' were launched into eternity inside Perth Gaol in that month , he thought that perhaps in the minds of these ...
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... savages could not create a civilization . Without religion the moral government of the earth would lapse and men would once more become savages . He agreed that God had con- fronted men with nothing but mystery , but they must take ...
... savages could not create a civilization . Without religion the moral government of the earth would lapse and men would once more become savages . He agreed that God had con- fronted men with nothing but mystery , but they must take ...
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... savages : ' They are waiting , angels on the other shore ' . He then went on his way rejoicing once again that , unworthy as he knew himself to be , he had been God's instrument to bring glad tidings to benighted savages . Before he had ...
... savages : ' They are waiting , angels on the other shore ' . He then went on his way rejoicing once again that , unworthy as he knew himself to be , he had been God's instrument to bring glad tidings to benighted savages . Before he had ...
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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