A History of Australia: The earth abideth for ever, 1851-1888This 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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Page 239
In Adelaide the Register rejoiced that inebriates had not marted the celebration ,
believing as they did that material progress was the handmaiden of moral
progress . Some prophesied that the overseas cable would end the other great
cause ...
In Adelaide the Register rejoiced that inebriates had not marted the celebration ,
believing as they did that material progress was the handmaiden of moral
progress . Some prophesied that the overseas cable would end the other great
cause ...
Page 337
In all those countries some had greeted the iron rail as a bearer of civilization ,
the instrument by which material progress was transplanted from the city to the
country ; others had shunned it as a monster . In the United States Bret Harte had
...
In all those countries some had greeted the iron rail as a bearer of civilization ,
the instrument by which material progress was transplanted from the city to the
country ; others had shunned it as a monster . In the United States Bret Harte had
...
Page 367
... broadcast doubts whether the highest good could be secured for humanity by a
better distribution of material possessions . James Moorhouse , the Church of
England bishop of Melbourne , like most human beings a bundle of
contradictions ...
... broadcast doubts whether the highest good could be secured for humanity by a
better distribution of material possessions . James Moorhouse , the Church of
England bishop of Melbourne , like most human beings a bundle of
contradictions ...
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PROLOGUE | 1 |
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE | 25 |
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| Title | A History of Australia: The earth abideth for ever, 1851-1888 Volume 4 of 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, 1962 |
| 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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