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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Tribes which were originally savage and dangerous had long since lost all such
character , and were now living peacefully side by side with the white man , and
were often usefully employed by the settlers . They were living under British law ...
Tribes which were originally savage and dangerous had long since lost all such
character , and were now living peacefully side by side with the white man , and
were often usefully employed by the settlers . They were living under British law ...
Page 299
In the Catholic churches the members of the congregation still besought their
Lord to give peace to those 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 ...
In the Catholic churches the members of the congregation still besought their
Lord to give peace to those 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 ...
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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 full of them
: the ...
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 full of them
: the ...
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Contents
PROLOGUE | 1 |
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE | 25 |
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| Title | A History of Australia, Volume 4 A History of Australia, Charles Manning Hope Clark, ISBN 0522842356, 9780522842357 Volume 4 of Dummy reekstitel |
| Author | Charles Manning Hope Clark |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Melbourne University Press, 1963 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Sep 2008 |
| ISBN | 0522841473, 9780522841473 |
| Length | 427 pages |
| Subjects | › History / Australia & New Zealand |
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