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The New Zealanders say that the land will depart from their children; the Australians are vanishing; the Tasmanians have vanished.
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgWalter Bagehot: “The New Zealanders say that the land will depart from their children; the Australians are vanishing; the Tasmanians have…”
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Bagehot highlights the decline of various indigenous peoples in the face of modernity.
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If those persons be people of different temperaments, different ideas, and different educations, you have an almost infallible security that nothing, or almost nothing, will be done with excessive rapidity.
They say, We reject your Bill for this once or these twice, or even these thrice: but if you keep on sending it up, at last we won't reject it.
The whole history of civilisation, is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
They have given what I may call a CONFIDENCE IN THE UNIVERSE.
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