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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... Melbourne a reflection of all the uproar in his own soul . Like his own soul , Melbourne was a battlefield on which was being played the battle between good and evil . He judged Melbourne in February 1868 to be ' as vicious a city as ...
... Melbourne a reflection of all the uproar in his own soul . Like his own soul , Melbourne was a battlefield on which was being played the battle between good and evil . He judged Melbourne in February 1868 to be ' as vicious a city as ...
Page 357
... Melbourne , to render thanks to Almighty God for the great benefits they had received at His hands , and to ask for those things which were requisite and necessary as well for the body as for the soul . They were worshipping in a new ...
... Melbourne , to render thanks to Almighty God for the great benefits they had received at His hands , and to ask for those things which were requisite and necessary as well for the body as for the soul . They were worshipping in a new ...
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... Melbourne Academy , 88 Melbourne Church of England Grammar School , 170 , 180 , 281 , 287 , 290 , 292 , 301 , 372 , 386 Melbourne Club : Burke's portrait pre- sented to , 164 ; dinners at , 241 ; mem- bership , 69 , 90 , 147 , 161 , 231 ...
... Melbourne Academy , 88 Melbourne Church of England Grammar School , 170 , 180 , 281 , 287 , 290 , 292 , 301 , 372 , 386 Melbourne Club : Burke's portrait pre- sented to , 164 ; dinners at , 241 ; mem- bership , 69 , 90 , 147 , 161 , 231 ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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