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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The merchants and settlers replied that nature had both cursed them and blessed
them with a natural wall - the interior of Australia - over which no convict could
escape . But in deference to the eastern alarms Her Majesty ' s government ...
The merchants and settlers replied that nature had both cursed them and blessed
them with a natural wall - the interior of Australia - over which no convict could
escape . But in deference to the eastern alarms Her Majesty ' s government ...
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that nature gorilla ' . But the mine appearance of a the act of killing his face lost
the appearance of a man and took on that of a ' humanised gorilla ' . But the bush
people were not put off by the cruel tricks that nature had played on him .
that nature gorilla ' . But the mine appearance of a the act of killing his face lost
the appearance of a man and took on that of a ' humanised gorilla ' . But the bush
people were not put off by the cruel tricks that nature had played on him .
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72 When he wrote His Natural Life Clarke was like all those authors of stature
who were aware of a problem to which ... Science had succeeded in making
mankind understand that the operations of nature were conducted upon certain
first ...
72 When he wrote His Natural Life Clarke was like all those authors of stature
who were aware of a problem to which ... Science had succeeded in making
mankind understand that the operations of nature were conducted upon certain
first ...
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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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