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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... face of the earth.11 By contrast , as Henry Parkes put it in the Empire in August of 1851 , the face of the white man's society was ' like the restless expanse of a summer sea ' . Men of a new stamp were about to rise up to lead the ...
... face of the earth.11 By contrast , as Henry Parkes put it in the Empire in August of 1851 , the face of the white man's society was ' like the restless expanse of a summer sea ' . Men of a new stamp were about to rise up to lead the ...
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... face to face'.42 The Catholic Church proclaimed its intention to keep her ' majestic brow unchanged ' and remain the ' pure spouse of Christ ' . The bishops and the priests warned the faithful against the unbelieving tendencies of the ...
... face to face'.42 The Catholic Church proclaimed its intention to keep her ' majestic brow unchanged ' and remain the ' pure spouse of Christ ' . The bishops and the priests warned the faithful against the unbelieving tendencies of the ...
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... face of the secular and materialistic tendencies of the age , the Church replied not with rational argument but with an emotional bath , together with the reminder that without religion there would be no morality , because without ...
... face of the secular and materialistic tendencies of the age , the Church replied not with rational argument but with an emotional bath , together with the reminder that without religion there would be no morality , because without ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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