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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... living peacefully side by side with the white man , and were often usefully employed by the settlers . They were living under British law ; they were being punished for following their own law of blood for blood . Perhaps the miracle ...
... living peacefully side by side with the white man , and were often usefully employed by the settlers . They were living under British law ; they were being punished for following their own law of blood for blood . Perhaps the miracle ...
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... living in fear , courage to those who had lost hope , and faith to those living in doubt . From one side of Australia to the other priests still held up to the eyes of the faithful the consecrated wafer as the body of Christ , and gave ...
... living in fear , courage to those who had lost hope , and faith to those living in doubt . From one side of Australia to the other priests still held up to the eyes of the faithful the consecrated wafer as the body of Christ , and gave ...
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... living . Those who had been accustomed to think of death as the end of all whom its shadowy portals enclosed , now had to appreciate the startling reality of the existence of the living dead . They were still with us . The very air was ...
... living . Those who had been accustomed to think of death as the end of all whom its shadowy portals enclosed , now had to appreciate the startling reality of the existence of the living dead . They were still with us . The very air was ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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