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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... human endeavour . By contrast South Australia witnessed for a brief season the victory of human endeavour over the land . In New South Wales , Queensland , and Western Australia men wondered whether the point made by Barron Field in his ...
... human endeavour . By contrast South Australia witnessed for a brief season the victory of human endeavour over the land . In New South Wales , Queensland , and Western Australia men wondered whether the point made by Barron Field in his ...
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... human life , but rather because the Judaeo - Christian view of the world , with its teaching on human depravity , human frailty , human im- potence , and a God who punished members of his own creation with eternal torments stank in the ...
... human life , but rather because the Judaeo - Christian view of the world , with its teaching on human depravity , human frailty , human im- potence , and a God who punished members of his own creation with eternal torments stank in the ...
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... human misery , and the chances of their disappearance . J. D. Fitzgerald was a prime mover . He had none of the characteristics of a Promethean figure , but many of those of an Old Testament moralizer and prophet . By contrast the young ...
... human misery , and the chances of their disappearance . J. D. Fitzgerald was a prime mover . He had none of the characteristics of a Promethean figure , but many of those of an Old Testament moralizer and prophet . By contrast the young ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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