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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... Victoria had declared the people of Van Diemen's Land to be such thieves , murderers and outcasts that they were unworthy of association with the inhabitants of Victoria . The rebellion at Eureka had humbled Victoria in the dust . As ...
... Victoria had declared the people of Van Diemen's Land to be such thieves , murderers and outcasts that they were unworthy of association with the inhabitants of Victoria . The rebellion at Eureka had humbled Victoria in the dust . As ...
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... Victoria's duty as the wealthiest and the leading member of the Australian colonies was to succeed where New South ... Victoria was about to incite the ardour of Australian youth in the cause of science and Australian progress . Victoria ...
... Victoria's duty as the wealthiest and the leading member of the Australian colonies was to succeed where New South ... Victoria was about to incite the ardour of Australian youth in the cause of science and Australian progress . Victoria ...
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... Victoria declared that they trembled for the next generation because of the deficiencies of both moral and secular education . Generations were growing up in Victoria strangers alike to the restraining , calming - down influence of the ...
... Victoria declared that they trembled for the next generation because of the deficiencies of both moral and secular education . Generations were growing up in Victoria strangers alike to the restraining , calming - down influence of the ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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