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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... Clarke made a sustained con- tribution to the conversation of mankind on such universal human questions as the effect of a harsh environment on human behaviour , why there were men with hard hearts in the world , and men like the ...
... Clarke made a sustained con- tribution to the conversation of mankind on such universal human questions as the effect of a harsh environment on human behaviour , why there were men with hard hearts in the world , and men like the ...
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... Clarke , he believed the weird scribblings of nature in Australia were fashioning a new race of men . But unlike Barron Field and the early men of enlarged consciousness in Australia , he had not seen the land as cursed or left ...
... Clarke , he believed the weird scribblings of nature in Australia were fashioning a new race of men . But unlike Barron Field and the early men of enlarged consciousness in Australia , he had not seen the land as cursed or left ...
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... Clarke ) , 315 civil service , 267-8 , 331 ; see also ' Black Wednesday ' Clancy of the Overflow ( The Banjo ) , 347-8 Clark , Rev. Charles , 299 Clarke , Sir Andrew , 103 , 108 , 231 Clarke , Marcus Andrew Hislop : alcohol , 232 , 250 ...
... Clarke ) , 315 civil service , 267-8 , 331 ; see also ' Black Wednesday ' Clancy of the Overflow ( The Banjo ) , 347-8 Clark , Rev. Charles , 299 Clarke , Sir Andrew , 103 , 108 , 231 Clarke , Marcus Andrew Hislop : alcohol , 232 , 250 ...
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THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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