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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... civilization in an uncouth land had imprinted in the minds of the white men a sense of their impotence and insignificance . A harsh environment had fashioned animals like the kangaroo , which had the appearance of being left unfinished ...
... civilization in an uncouth land had imprinted in the minds of the white men a sense of their impotence and insignificance . A harsh environment had fashioned animals like the kangaroo , which had the appearance of being left unfinished ...
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Charles Manning Hope Clark. barbarism with civilization in thirty years , and reminded others of the guilty stains from the past which industrial civilization would wash away . ' 18 At the same time , in their habits and way of life the ...
Charles Manning Hope Clark. barbarism with civilization in thirty years , and reminded others of the guilty stains from the past which industrial civilization would wash away . ' 18 At the same time , in their habits and way of life the ...
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... civilization , such as the British , always ' marched over the bodies of the inferior races ' . A race which had been described as ' the lowest now on earth representative of savage humanity ' must decay and disappear before the advance ...
... civilization , such as the British , always ' marched over the bodies of the inferior races ' . A race which had been described as ' the lowest now on earth representative of savage humanity ' must decay and disappear before the advance ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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