A decade of assessment : being a study in the intellectual life of the city of Melbourne between 1876 and 1886
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1965
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Roe, Jillian Isobel
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This thesis deals with six main fields of colonial
thought: religious, educational, political, literary,
artistic and scientific. These fields are separately
discussed, but are arranged so that the discussion
converges upon a central chapter, which is a description
of the city of Melbourne in about 1881. This chapter
describes a seventh kind of thinking fundamental to the
flanking chapters, and provides a focus for, and summary
of, the efforts discussed in those chapters. By
dispensing with the usual introduction and conclusion,
and adopting a concentric structure, the writer has
wished to emphasize two things. The first is the
importance of the situation, which focused the attention
of the thoughtful minority here discussed (a remark
meant to indicate the direction of their thinking rather
than its bases or content). The second is that this
rather arbitrarily selected decade admits no real
conclusions, and was not chosen out of any interest in
its doing so.
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