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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On 24 September 1866 he met the clergy charged with the cure of souls in the
Sydney district and the lay members of the doomed Denominational Schools
Board to exchange mind with them in the Church House in Sydney . The lord
bishop ...
On 24 September 1866 he met the clergy charged with the cure of souls in the
Sydney district and the lay members of the doomed Denominational Schools
Board to exchange mind with them in the Church House in Sydney . The lord
bishop ...
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prostration of mind amounting almost to superstition ' . ' Let us bear in mind ' , he
added , that the letter killeth , but the spirit it is which giveth life . ' As for that other
question of what became of the great majority of souls when they died , he ...
prostration of mind amounting almost to superstition ' . ' Let us bear in mind ' , he
added , that the letter killeth , but the spirit it is which giveth life . ' As for that other
question of what became of the great majority of souls when they died , he ...
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46 Though there was no God in the outback , though an emptiness was the
characteristic of men ' s minds which at other ... Men passed round the hat for
those who were in any way afflicted in mind , body or estate , not just to help
those who ...
46 Though there was no God in the outback , though an emptiness was the
characteristic of men ' s minds which at other ... Men passed round the hat for
those who were in any way afflicted in mind , body or estate , not just to help
those who ...
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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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