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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Page 260
A few days later the members of the Protestant Political Association in Sydney
passed a resolution which praised the ' political ... He was fighting the great battle
of the century , ' the battle of Protestantism and Progress against Roman Catholic
...
A few days later the members of the Protestant Political Association in Sydney
passed a resolution which praised the ' political ... He was fighting the great battle
of the century , ' the battle of Protestantism and Progress against Roman Catholic
...
Page 273
The children in the Catholic , Protestant and national schools exhibited an
amount of ignorance that disgraced a Christian country . The fruits of learning by
rote were that children were able to recite all passages of the Gospel without
becoming ...
The children in the Catholic , Protestant and national schools exhibited an
amount of ignorance that disgraced a Christian country . The fruits of learning by
rote were that children were able to recite all passages of the Gospel without
becoming ...
Page 280
For Parkes saw the stand maintained by Polding and Quinn as the erection of
obstacles to the creation of an Australian people , and the perpetuation of that
division between the English and the Irish , the Protestant and the Catholic ,
which ...
For Parkes saw the stand maintained by Polding and Quinn as the erection of
obstacles to the creation of an Australian people , and the perpetuation of that
division between the English and the Irish , the Protestant and the Catholic ,
which ...
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PROLOGUE | 1 |
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE | 25 |
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