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Sixty-three years' experience of planting a European 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, ...
Sixty-three years' experience of planting a European 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, ...
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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 people living in the interior also resembled ...
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 people living in the interior also resembled ...
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The inexorable logic of all human history showed that a superior 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 ...
The inexorable logic of all human history showed that a superior 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 ...
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Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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| Title | A History of Australia: The earth abideth for ever, 1851-1888 Volume 4 of 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, 1991 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Sep 2008 |
| ISBN | 0522841473, 9780522841473 |
| Length | 427 pages |
| Subjects | › History / Australia & New Zealand History / General |
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