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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... believed in government by gentle- men and believed too that the advancements in science had provided man with the means to triumph over the obstacles nature placed in his way . 1 1 First , Second , Third , Fourth and Fifth Reports of ...
... believed in government by gentle- men and believed too that the advancements in science had provided man with the means to triumph over the obstacles nature placed in his way . 1 1 First , Second , Third , Fourth and Fifth Reports of ...
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... believed priests and parsons were dispensable ; most believed like Parkes in Sydney that schoolmasters could inculcate morality . Most of the members of the commission thought of ' the men in black ' as survivors from a dark age who had ...
... believed priests and parsons were dispensable ; most believed like Parkes in Sydney that schoolmasters could inculcate morality . Most of the members of the commission thought of ' the men in black ' as survivors from a dark age who had ...
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... believed that after the death of God the elite of the earth would manure the soil with the blood and bones of the weak so that the future of mankind might be all the more luxuriant.41 The parsons and the priests responded with exuberant ...
... believed that after the death of God the elite of the earth would manure the soil with the blood and bones of the weak so that the future of mankind might be all the more luxuriant.41 The parsons and the priests responded with exuberant ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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