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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... 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 land , would buy it from you ; but who , as you are few and weak , and timorous ...
... 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 land , would buy it from you ; but who , as you are few and weak , and timorous ...
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... England's righteous cause , so enthusiastically defended by the press in the middle of 1854 , and of the Czar as a ... England had been bound down , emasculated , crippled , and held in leash by the deplorable incubus of senility and ...
... England's righteous cause , so enthusiastically defended by the press in the middle of 1854 , and of the Czar as a ... England had been bound down , emasculated , crippled , and held in leash by the deplorable incubus of senility and ...
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... England - men like Carlyle , Mill and Tennyson . The visit to England had strengthened his bond with the mother country . As an expression of what he felt he published this poem about England in the Great Britain Gazette on July 1861 : ...
... England - men like Carlyle , Mill and Tennyson . The visit to England had strengthened his bond with the mother country . As an expression of what he felt he published this poem about England in the Great Britain Gazette on July 1861 : ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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