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 278
A few weeks later the Catholic bishops of New South Wales informed Parkes that
' school books of acknowledged merit as to secular knowledge , and approved by
the Roman Catholic Bishops , should be provided by the Council of Education ...
A few weeks later the Catholic bishops of New South Wales informed Parkes that
' school books of acknowledged merit as to secular knowledge , and approved by
the Roman Catholic Bishops , should be provided by the Council of Education ...
Page 279
At a very well - attended meeting of Catholics at St Mary ' s Cathedral , Sydney ,
on 5 November 1867 he told his ' dear Friends and children ' what he had
decided to do . After calling on Almighty God to bless his decision , he told them
all that ...
At a very well - attended meeting of Catholics at St Mary ' s Cathedral , Sydney ,
on 5 November 1867 he told his ' dear Friends and children ' what he had
decided to do . After calling on Almighty God to bless his decision , he told them
all that ...
Page 280
One moment he was telling his Catholic friend , Charles Gavan Duffy , ' I fervently
pray to God that a way may be found ... the time to indulge himself with those
expressions he loved to turn on in public such as the Catholics were as wrong as
...
One moment he was telling his Catholic friend , Charles Gavan Duffy , ' I fervently
pray to God that a way may be found ... the time to indulge himself with those
expressions he loved to turn on in public such as the Catholics were as wrong as
...
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PROLOGUE | 1 |
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE | 25 |
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