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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... God's ministering angel , because she was in part that cherub with a vision of God's throne , and man the insect to whom God gave sensual lust , she ought not to be the bread - winner , or exercise a trade or profession , or debate in ...
... God's ministering angel , because she was in part that cherub with a vision of God's throne , and man the insect to whom God gave sensual lust , she ought not to be the bread - winner , or exercise a trade or profession , or debate in ...
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... God's plan for the redemption of mankind . So Good Friday and Easter Monday were grouped with Her Majesty's birthday and the Prince of Wales's birthday as days on which the schools were to be closed . British civilization and the ...
... God's plan for the redemption of mankind . So Good Friday and Easter Monday were grouped with Her Majesty's birthday and the Prince of Wales's birthday as days on which the schools were to be closed . British civilization and the ...
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... God to send them a delusion so that they might live with their lie.57 The question was , what was man to put between ... God's world . Ada Cambridge , a vicar's wife , kept telling herself , as Tennyson had told himself in the days of ...
... God to send them a delusion so that they might live with their lie.57 The question was , what was man to put between ... God's world . Ada Cambridge , a vicar's wife , kept telling herself , as Tennyson had told himself in the days of ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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