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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... Letters , Wentworth Papers ( MS . in M.L. ) . 39 W. C. Wentworth to William Macarthur , 25 June 1867 , Macarthur Papers , vol . 42 , pp . 255-7 ; Lucy A. Wentworth to Mrs Fisher , 20 September 1873 , ibid . 40 Sarah Wentworth to Mrs ...
... Letters , Wentworth Papers ( MS . in M.L. ) . 39 W. C. Wentworth to William Macarthur , 25 June 1867 , Macarthur Papers , vol . 42 , pp . 255-7 ; Lucy A. Wentworth to Mrs Fisher , 20 September 1873 , ibid . 40 Sarah Wentworth to Mrs ...
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... letters to the members of his persuasion , beginning with the letter of June 1879. In this and subsequent letters he argued that the public schools of New South Wales would in course of time fill the country with indifferentism , not to ...
... letters to the members of his persuasion , beginning with the letter of June 1879. In this and subsequent letters he argued that the public schools of New South Wales would in course of time fill the country with indifferentism , not to ...
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... letters which betrayed just how much recognition and public honours meant to him . Such journeys left him ' so very weary ' that he could fall asleep at any minute . Yet , after a day's rest at ' Faulconbridge ' , his holiday house in ...
... letters which betrayed just how much recognition and public honours meant to him . Such journeys left him ' so very weary ' that he could fall asleep at any minute . Yet , after a day's rest at ' Faulconbridge ' , his holiday house in ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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