A History of Australia: 'The old dead and the young tree green', 1916-1935Melbourne University Press, 1963 - Australia |
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Page 183
... spirit ' . He felt as though he were being resolved back almost to the plant kingdom , before souls , spirits and minds were grown at all . In Aus- tralia there was a people with live , energetic bodies and ' a weird face'.39 In May ...
... spirit ' . He felt as though he were being resolved back almost to the plant kingdom , before souls , spirits and minds were grown at all . In Aus- tralia there was a people with live , energetic bodies and ' a weird face'.39 In May ...
Page 245
... spirit of place in Australia and the spirit of its society would never allow to be at ease there . It was a work about the corrupting influence of money values - an Old Testament prophet's judge- ment on a society run by the money ...
... spirit of place in Australia and the spirit of its society would never allow to be at ease there . It was a work about the corrupting influence of money values - an Old Testament prophet's judge- ment on a society run by the money ...
Page 440
... spirit , rather than to faults in his own clay . As D. H. Lawrence had put it , Australians had a ' rather fas- cinating indifference , a physical indifference to what we call soul or spirit ' , ' no inside life of any sort : just a ...
... spirit , rather than to faults in his own clay . As D. H. Lawrence had put it , Australians had a ' rather fas- cinating indifference , a physical indifference to what we call soul or spirit ' , ' no inside life of any sort : just a ...
Contents
VICTORY OF THE COMFORTABLE CLASSES | 47 |
A DIVIDED AUSTRALIA | 80 |
John Joseph Ambrose Curtin and Robert Gordon Menzies frontispiece | 116 |
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