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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Yes , ' continued the Argus , listen , dusky fellow - subject , for there comes
Christian England ; the great , the powerful , the intelligent , the good ! There
comes Christian England , who , if you were strong enough to demand a price for
your ...
Yes , ' continued the Argus , listen , dusky fellow - subject , for there comes
Christian England ; the great , the powerful , the intelligent , the good ! There
comes Christian England , who , if you were strong enough to demand a price for
your ...
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In the national schools the children learned of the glories of British arms , and the
spread of a beneficent British civilization over the whole world , British civilization
and Bible - based Christianity being represented as that ' sea of glory ' which ...
In the national schools the children learned of the glories of British arms , and the
spread of a beneficent British civilization over the whole world , British civilization
and Bible - based Christianity being represented as that ' sea of glory ' which ...
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The Reverend Mr Gribble , who saw himself as a fool in Christ whose heart was
overflowing with love for the natives of ... an example of the true Christian mode
of dealing with the natives and making such recommendations to the government
...
The Reverend Mr Gribble , who saw himself as a fool in Christ whose heart was
overflowing with love for the natives of ... an example of the true Christian mode
of dealing with the natives and making such recommendations to the government
...
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PROLOGUE | 1 |
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE | 25 |
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