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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... kingdom of heaven into disquieted members of the kingdom of nothingness . Twenty years earlier , while the colonials with engaging simplicity and infuriating coarseness of mind were professing their confidence in ' the coming good time ...
... kingdom of heaven into disquieted members of the kingdom of nothingness . Twenty years earlier , while the colonials with engaging simplicity and infuriating coarseness of mind were professing their confidence in ' the coming good time ...
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... kingdom of God before the well - instructed scribe and pharisee ? ' His answer was that those who were deemed unworthy of everlasting life , the savage tyrants for example , who gave way to frightful lust ... Kingdom of Nothingness 303.
... kingdom of God before the well - instructed scribe and pharisee ? ' His answer was that those who were deemed unworthy of everlasting life , the savage tyrants for example , who gave way to frightful lust ... Kingdom of Nothingness 303.
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... kingdom of nothingness , Marcus Clarke , after which he made his way back to his home in Brighton , defeated , lonely , and puzzled that he , the day dreamer , the man who had known ecstasy and madness , now ... Kingdom of Nothingness 311.
... kingdom of nothingness , Marcus Clarke , after which he made his way back to his home in Brighton , defeated , lonely , and puzzled that he , the day dreamer , the man who had known ecstasy and madness , now ... Kingdom of Nothingness 311.
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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