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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When the news reached Sydney on 18 July , once again men foamed at the
mouth and rushed about with that demented look in the eyes of those who have
surrendered to a great frenzy . Some said that from that day they would not
measure ...
When the news reached Sydney on 18 July , once again men foamed at the
mouth and rushed about with that demented look in the eyes of those who have
surrendered to a great frenzy . Some said that from that day they would not
measure ...
Page 116
57 By then nothing could calm the madness in the blood of the diggers . At the
Buckland River early in July a rumour spread like wildfire that a Chinaman had
been seen committing an unnatural crime with one of the brute creation near the
...
57 By then nothing could calm the madness in the blood of the diggers . At the
Buckland River early in July a rumour spread like wildfire that a Chinaman had
been seen committing an unnatural crime with one of the brute creation near the
...
Page 132
At the burial of the digger killed in the riot on 16 July , the funeral orator named
the police as his murderers . The cry of ' Out with the moon - faced barbarians '
was giving way to ' Down with government ' and even ' Down with all
governments ' ...
At the burial of the digger killed in the riot on 16 July , the funeral orator named
the police as his murderers . The cry of ' Out with the moon - faced barbarians '
was giving way to ' Down with government ' and even ' Down with all
governments ' ...
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PROLOGUE | 1 |
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE | 25 |
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