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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... wanted women as they were ; they wanted women as God and nature had decreed they should be . A man who was a bachelor and , on his own confession , ' gay and fully appreciative of the charms of ladies ' society ' , a ' lover of balls ...
... wanted women as they were ; they wanted women as God and nature had decreed they should be . A man who was a bachelor and , on his own confession , ' gay and fully appreciative of the charms of ladies ' society ' , a ' lover of balls ...
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... wanted to stop purity being driven to harlotry , for purity was another of his great obsessions . He wanted to stop corruption infesting the forces of humanity . Lane's remedy for all the misery of mankind was not a change in the ...
... wanted to stop purity being driven to harlotry , for purity was another of his great obsessions . He wanted to stop corruption infesting the forces of humanity . Lane's remedy for all the misery of mankind was not a change in the ...
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... wanted them to learn to love the blue flag with the white cross , that bonny ' flag of the Southern Cross ' , which rose only once to mark the brightest spot in Australian history . He wanted them to acquire a preference for some ...
... wanted them to learn to love the blue flag with the white cross , that bonny ' flag of the Southern Cross ' , which rose only once to mark the brightest spot in Australian history . He wanted them to acquire a preference for some ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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