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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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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PROLOGUE | 1 |
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE | 25 |
Copyright | |
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