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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Page 107
... things spiritual and their abhorrence of all things carnal , Henry Wallen , the one - time ' governor ' of Kangaroo Island was breathing his last in a suburb of Adelaide . Ever since Samuel Stephens had bought him out of his idyllic ...
... things spiritual and their abhorrence of all things carnal , Henry Wallen , the one - time ' governor ' of Kangaroo Island was breathing his last in a suburb of Adelaide . Ever since Samuel Stephens had bought him out of his idyllic ...
Page 147
... thing . It never occurred to him that any of those ' living things ' , least of all those original tenants of the deserts he was to traverse , the Australian aborigines , could teach him how to live off the land . The white man was ...
... thing . It never occurred to him that any of those ' living things ' , least of all those original tenants of the deserts he was to traverse , the Australian aborigines , could teach him how to live off the land . The white man was ...
Page 357
... things which were requisite and necessary as well for the body as for the soul . They were worshipping in a new building deemed to be worthy of a great city like Melbourne . The interior decoration was typical of their con- ception of ...
... things which were requisite and necessary as well for the body as for the soul . They were worshipping in a new building deemed to be worthy of a great city like Melbourne . The interior decoration was typical of their con- ception of ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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