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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The upper classes believed that the people were contented and had acquiesced
in their ascendancy , but , Parkes reminded his readers , as de Tocqueville
pointed out , that was what the French nobles believed when the great storm was
...
The upper classes believed that the people were contented and had acquiesced
in their ascendancy , but , Parkes reminded his readers , as de Tocqueville
pointed out , that was what the French nobles believed when the great storm was
...
Page 281
Most of them 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 ...
Most of them 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 ...
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in 1876 , he believed in the survival of the fittest , that those with power would '
invoke and remorselessly fulfil the inexorable law of natural selection when
exterminating the inferior Australian and Maori races ' , because these , as least
fitted to ...
in 1876 , he believed in the survival of the fittest , that those with power would '
invoke and remorselessly fulfil the inexorable law of natural selection when
exterminating the inferior Australian and Maori races ' , because these , as least
fitted to ...
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Contents
PROLOGUE | 1 |
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE | 25 |
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| Title | A History of Australia, Volume 4 A History of Australia, Charles Manning Hope Clark, ISBN 0522842356, 9780522842357 Volume 4 of Dummy reekstitel |
| Author | Charles Manning Hope Clark |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Melbourne University Press, 1963 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Sep 2008 |
| ISBN | 0522841473, 9780522841473 |
| Length | 427 pages |
| Subjects | › History / Australia & New Zealand |
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