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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... Church in Sydney was consecrated on 30 November 1868 by the metropolitan of Australia , the Right Reverend Dr Frederic Barker told the congregation this cathedral had achieved that per- fection which belonged appropriately to Christ's ...
... Church in Sydney was consecrated on 30 November 1868 by the metropolitan of Australia , the Right Reverend Dr Frederic Barker told the congregation this cathedral had achieved that per- fection which belonged appropriately to Christ's ...
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... Church to regard not ' those things which pleased the flesh , nor those which flourished in this life ' but to long ' after the everlasting riches with their whole hope and earnest intention'.43 At the same time the ministers of the ...
... Church to regard not ' those things which pleased the flesh , nor those which flourished in this life ' but to long ' after the everlasting riches with their whole hope and earnest intention'.43 At the same time the ministers of the ...
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... church doors , with servants outside while the family was within the sanctuary . They continued to hold their weekly breakfasts in the capital cities for the poor and the dissolute at which over tea and coffee their ministers spoke in ...
... church doors , with servants outside while the family was within the sanctuary . They continued to hold their weekly breakfasts in the capital cities for the poor and the dissolute at which over tea and coffee their ministers spoke in ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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