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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... earth of Australia.21 For Raffaello Carboni all this ' blather ' and ' yabber yabber ' of a day of reckoning between the people and their oppressors was part of the ' storm of life ' , which would blow all rottenness out of their lives ...
... earth of Australia.21 For Raffaello Carboni all this ' blather ' and ' yabber yabber ' of a day of reckoning between the people and their oppressors was part of the ' storm of life ' , which would blow all rottenness out of their lives ...
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... earth , and subdue it ; and have dominion over the fish of the sea , and over the fowl of the air , and over every living thing that moveth over the earth . The time was ripe for man to establish his mastery over the earth in Australia ...
... earth , and subdue it ; and have dominion over the fish of the sea , and over the fowl of the air , and over every living thing that moveth over the earth . The time was ripe for man to establish his mastery over the earth in Australia ...
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... earth resided in a stick of dynamite . Other speakers prophesied that the day was at hand when men , their minds purged of all that ' medieval dirt ' about sin and punishment , would build a paradise on earth . 18 Those men who believed ...
... earth resided in a stick of dynamite . Other speakers prophesied that the day was at hand when men , their minds purged of all that ' medieval dirt ' about sin and punishment , would build a paradise on earth . 18 Those men who believed ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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